New HDD is not functioning properly

Droidster

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Dec 8, 2012
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I just put a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD into my PC and it is visible in the BIOS/disk managment. The first time I tried to format it the process failed but I managed to make it NTFS after trying again. If I try to download a game from steam onto it I get the "disk write error" message soon after I start installing it. I also tried to run the dxtory disk write speed test and got 2mb/s compared to 67 on my other HDD (I tried running this again on the new drive and it wouldn't even start testing)

I started formatting it again but it's been stuck on 3% for the last couple of hours, can I fix this myself or is the hardware faulty?
I'm using win 7 64bit
 
is it a new drive? or second hand?
Either way.. download the Seagate testing tool and test it..
If it passes. .you can look elsewhere. .if it fails.. you have your answer.

http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/

HTH
Cheers