HDD continuous issues - A hard disk error occurred etc

Langers500

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Jan 17, 2014
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Okay before linking a check list I need to mention a few things.

1. The current build I have is just over a month old.
2. I had previous issues mentioned here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2006566/hard-drive-partition-issue-startup-error.html
3. I believe it may be a corrupted hard drive(s)

Specs:
Intel Quad Core i5 3570k
16gb Ram
Nvidia Asus GTX 770
1tb Seagate Harddrive*
1tb Seagate Harddrive*
500gb Western Digital Harddrive.
*only drives I believe I have an issue with.

Okay so basically now I have mentioned that you have some background knowledge on my issues.
When I boot up I get the 'A hard disk error occurred, press Ctrl Alt Delete to restart' and it disappeared temporarily after the previous issues I mentioned about. I got that again a few hours ago and it took 4 times going through it before I got past it and was stuck on a black screen.

By this point you should know as its a new build I am getting increasingly irritated and angry due to it costing a fairly big sum.

I am under the belief it is a HDD corruption or issue with some point but I can only occasionally get past the error to access my computer.

Any ideas would be great to hear because I am at my wits end with this and close to either replacing the HDDs or melting the entire thing into scrap.
 
WD will probably ask you to test the drive before they will authorise it's return, since they get a fair number returned which have nothing wrong with them.

Test the hard drive with WD Data Lifeguard for DOS which loads from a bootable CD. At the very least it will settle any doubt that the drive may be faulty. Download the CD Image via the link on this page: http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/topic/63494-looking-for-western-digital-data-lifeguard-iso/

Create a CD from the ISO file with IMGBurn: http://www.filehippo.com/download_imgburn/

Then boot your PC from that CD and the diagnostic utility will open. use the Long/Extended test for thorough testing.