Help wiping corrupted HDD using hot swap bay

Rion Lane

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I have been trying to wipe / kill 2 different HDDs using my hot swap bay on my case. When i plug the drives into it, the mouse lags and acts irratic. I have also gotten the BSOD on both drives after plugging them in. They are both WD HDDs.

On the 2TB WD drive it is recognized by the system when plugged in but I had to assign it a drive letter in disk management. The mouse continues to lag. And I can't seem to complete any formatting or scan disk on the drive. I tried using Kill Disk but it stays at 0% for up to an hour.

The other HDD just BSOD when plugged in. And niether HDD are making any unusual sounds. Both spin when plugged in and niether have been dropped or anything.

Here are my system specs:
Intel i7-4770k (OC'd to 4.4Ghz)
Corsair h100i water cooling
ASRock Extreme IV P87 Motherboard
24Gb of DDR3 RAM
GTX 770 2Gb (main)
GTX 550 Ti 2Gb (physx processor)
1000 Watt PSU
Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra Case
 

Freakboi_pa

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If you are planning on trashing the drives, you can take a large drill bit and put some holes randomly through the drives.

If you're planning to keep them, it sounds like it might be a controller board issue of the drives.
 

Rion Lane

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Well, as of now, they are just sitting around collecting dust with no info on them. I was hoping to salvage them, if possible. The 2TB WD is pretty new and just stopped working one day, so I'm hoping that there might be a "easy" fix for it using software of some sort.
The other drive was good last time I used it but now BSOD when plugged into the hot swap bay.

I am still confused as to why my mouse and keyboard lag when either device is plugged into the hot swap bay...