I recently purchased a pair of Seagate 4 TB internal drives (ST40000DM000) along with a Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 ProBox 4 Hard Drive Enclosure to connect with eSATA to a PC I'm running with Windows 7. I set everything up, initialized and formated the first drive without problem and everything seemed to be going well. That ended when I moved onto the second drive.
When I tried initializing it in Disk Management it seemed to be taking longer than it should and eventually gave me an error message saying something like it was given a drive letter but failed at formatting and to try again (sadly I should have written down what the message said exactly but did not). At this point the problematic unallocated hard drive disappeared completely from my Disk Management utility. I tried restarting, swapping drive spots between bay slots, putting the problem drive in the first bay slot by itself, jostling the SATA cable -- I couldn't get it to appear again. Finally after several reboots it showed itself (I wish I knew why) again as an unallocated, uninitialized drive in Disk Management. I went to initialize the drive with GPT and got a Virtual Disk Manager error message saying "This request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." Same result when trying to initialize it with MBR.
After another restart the drive has disappeared again, not to be found in Disk Management since. The other drive I bought is doing great regardless if it's in the first bay slot or second. Have I done something wrong or am I overlooking something? Is it likely this drive is defective and I should return it? Any thoughts are most appreciated.
When I tried initializing it in Disk Management it seemed to be taking longer than it should and eventually gave me an error message saying something like it was given a drive letter but failed at formatting and to try again (sadly I should have written down what the message said exactly but did not). At this point the problematic unallocated hard drive disappeared completely from my Disk Management utility. I tried restarting, swapping drive spots between bay slots, putting the problem drive in the first bay slot by itself, jostling the SATA cable -- I couldn't get it to appear again. Finally after several reboots it showed itself (I wish I knew why) again as an unallocated, uninitialized drive in Disk Management. I went to initialize the drive with GPT and got a Virtual Disk Manager error message saying "This request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." Same result when trying to initialize it with MBR.
After another restart the drive has disappeared again, not to be found in Disk Management since. The other drive I bought is doing great regardless if it's in the first bay slot or second. Have I done something wrong or am I overlooking something? Is it likely this drive is defective and I should return it? Any thoughts are most appreciated.
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