- May 16, 2014
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I just bought a new Hitachi 2TB HDD and installed it onto my system (Windows 7 x64). I've installed a dozen drives before and never had an issue, but this one wouldn't show up in Disk Management. In addition, my previous storage drive (which this new one was going to supplement) was now failing to show up as well.
I took out the new drive and examined it closer, finding out that it was NOT the drive I had ordered. It was a SATA 3 Gb/s 32 Mb cache instead of the 3 Gb/s 64 Mb cache that I ordered.
After packaging it up for return, I STILL couldn't get my old drive to work. I've swapped cables with the still functioning SSD I use for a system drive and my CDROM, but nothing works. It just can't be recognized. Same problem on my only computer. It's like it isn't there.
My question is whether or not installing a bad drive (which I'm assuming the Hitachi was since it didn't function from the get-go) affect a good drive (my old drive hasn't had any problems until just now)? I can't believe it is just a coincidence that I install a bad drive the same boot that my old drive dies.
I'd appreciate any advice or feedback. If you need more info, let me know. Thanks.
I took out the new drive and examined it closer, finding out that it was NOT the drive I had ordered. It was a SATA 3 Gb/s 32 Mb cache instead of the 3 Gb/s 64 Mb cache that I ordered.
After packaging it up for return, I STILL couldn't get my old drive to work. I've swapped cables with the still functioning SSD I use for a system drive and my CDROM, but nothing works. It just can't be recognized. Same problem on my only computer. It's like it isn't there.
My question is whether or not installing a bad drive (which I'm assuming the Hitachi was since it didn't function from the get-go) affect a good drive (my old drive hasn't had any problems until just now)? I can't believe it is just a coincidence that I install a bad drive the same boot that my old drive dies.
I'd appreciate any advice or feedback. If you need more info, let me know. Thanks.
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