- Mar 21, 2014
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I just built my first computer. The specs are as follows:
Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H
Intel i5 4670K
Two sticks of Patriot 8G DDR3
Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD
Ultra LSP 750W PSU
ASUS DVD/CD burner
I am running Windows 7 64 bit
I assembled the computer after thoroughly reading all instruction manuals, and everything seems to work fine. The OS boots up fine, and the burner seems to work fine aswell.
I only bought what I needed to get the computer to work initially, and then the plan is to buy what I want and can afford as time goes by.
Well 120 GB doesn't last long at all, so I went out to the local Tiger Direct and bought a Toshiba 3TB HDD. It was pretty cheap so I suspected its general integrity, but proceeded to purchase it anyway.
I take it home and plug it in. I open up Windows Disk Management and proceed to set it up as GPT. Then I attempt to format it. Having never actually formatted an HDD before I figured 3TB would take a while and I left the house returning the next morning to find that it had disappeared.
I went online, and read through many forum posts (a bunch from this site, a bunch from other sites) and eventually came to the conclusion that I should unplug it, turn the comp on and then shut it down, and then hook the HDD back up again.
It appeared in Disk Management again so I took another crack at formatting it. But it disappeared again.
After the third time I had started noticing a noise from the HDD, a "zipp-click" sound would happen every minute or so. so I decided to bring the unit back to TD and request a swap.
They of course wanted to test it so I waited around. The guy testing the unit got it formatted no problem, he just said it took a little longer than he had expected to. So I figured what the heck? and brought it home.
Since it was allocated and formatted into one large unit of space I made a new partition and again tried to format it. It didn't disappear, but it didn't format either. So I searched around the web for a few days and found a thread on this very site suggesting another person to try a different formatting software, and I tried it too. It formatted the new partition no problem. So I went to bed.
The next day I realized that the partition I made was not large enough for what I wanted to use it for, so I deleted all partitions and started to reformat the thing again. (this is where I am currently at)
The HDD isn't formatting. It isn't disappearing either though. The new formatting program that I am using is "Miniaide Magic Partition Home Edition v5.5". Windows Disk Management wont work either. and I have been listening to that "zip-click" noise for the last 45 minutes.
What should I do? Should I take it out and throw it under a bus? I don't understand why the guy at Tiger Direct can get it working with the same software I have, and it just farts when I try to get it going. Maybe I am doing something wrong, or maybe I am missing something here.
Please help me, I am going crazy....
P.S. no other drive has disappeared yet.
Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H
Intel i5 4670K
Two sticks of Patriot 8G DDR3
Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD
Ultra LSP 750W PSU
ASUS DVD/CD burner
I am running Windows 7 64 bit
I assembled the computer after thoroughly reading all instruction manuals, and everything seems to work fine. The OS boots up fine, and the burner seems to work fine aswell.
I only bought what I needed to get the computer to work initially, and then the plan is to buy what I want and can afford as time goes by.
Well 120 GB doesn't last long at all, so I went out to the local Tiger Direct and bought a Toshiba 3TB HDD. It was pretty cheap so I suspected its general integrity, but proceeded to purchase it anyway.
I take it home and plug it in. I open up Windows Disk Management and proceed to set it up as GPT. Then I attempt to format it. Having never actually formatted an HDD before I figured 3TB would take a while and I left the house returning the next morning to find that it had disappeared.
I went online, and read through many forum posts (a bunch from this site, a bunch from other sites) and eventually came to the conclusion that I should unplug it, turn the comp on and then shut it down, and then hook the HDD back up again.
It appeared in Disk Management again so I took another crack at formatting it. But it disappeared again.
After the third time I had started noticing a noise from the HDD, a "zipp-click" sound would happen every minute or so. so I decided to bring the unit back to TD and request a swap.
They of course wanted to test it so I waited around. The guy testing the unit got it formatted no problem, he just said it took a little longer than he had expected to. So I figured what the heck? and brought it home.
Since it was allocated and formatted into one large unit of space I made a new partition and again tried to format it. It didn't disappear, but it didn't format either. So I searched around the web for a few days and found a thread on this very site suggesting another person to try a different formatting software, and I tried it too. It formatted the new partition no problem. So I went to bed.
The next day I realized that the partition I made was not large enough for what I wanted to use it for, so I deleted all partitions and started to reformat the thing again. (this is where I am currently at)
The HDD isn't formatting. It isn't disappearing either though. The new formatting program that I am using is "Miniaide Magic Partition Home Edition v5.5". Windows Disk Management wont work either. and I have been listening to that "zip-click" noise for the last 45 minutes.
What should I do? Should I take it out and throw it under a bus? I don't understand why the guy at Tiger Direct can get it working with the same software I have, and it just farts when I try to get it going. Maybe I am doing something wrong, or maybe I am missing something here.
Please help me, I am going crazy....
P.S. no other drive has disappeared yet.
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