- May 27, 2014
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So I just picked up this new Western Digital HD, (http://www.amazon.com/WD-Red-NAS-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLW4M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1401239106&sr=8-2&keywords=3tb+hard+drive)
and it came in the mail today so I plugged it into my computer (It's a fairly high end computer I've had for a year or two). I made sure I had the right power and data connectors, and it showed up in boot choices in my BIOS, but when I started Windows (After a few tried, I will explain that later) My Computer showed only my main Hard Drive. I turned it off and double checked the power connectors (They are not defective, I used to have them plugged into my previous secondary hard drive and it worked fine) and booted it again, but nothing was there.
But for some weird reason when I tried to boot up my computer it would go through the main booting processes, but right before the "welcome" windows screen (I have windows 7) my screen just went black. I let it sit for 5-10 minutes but it wasn't working, so I restarted and had to "run startup repair" just to get it to boot up. Right now the hard drive is out of my computer sitting in the box ready to go back to Amazon if it was defective, my old secondary is back in my hard drive working fine, and my booting is also working flawlessly. Did I just overlook something in how I added the hard drive? Would I have to re install windows 7 in order to get it work? Or did I just get a defective Hard Drive. Thanks guys!
-Shadow
and it came in the mail today so I plugged it into my computer (It's a fairly high end computer I've had for a year or two). I made sure I had the right power and data connectors, and it showed up in boot choices in my BIOS, but when I started Windows (After a few tried, I will explain that later) My Computer showed only my main Hard Drive. I turned it off and double checked the power connectors (They are not defective, I used to have them plugged into my previous secondary hard drive and it worked fine) and booted it again, but nothing was there.
But for some weird reason when I tried to boot up my computer it would go through the main booting processes, but right before the "welcome" windows screen (I have windows 7) my screen just went black. I let it sit for 5-10 minutes but it wasn't working, so I restarted and had to "run startup repair" just to get it to boot up. Right now the hard drive is out of my computer sitting in the box ready to go back to Amazon if it was defective, my old secondary is back in my hard drive working fine, and my booting is also working flawlessly. Did I just overlook something in how I added the hard drive? Would I have to re install windows 7 in order to get it work? Or did I just get a defective Hard Drive. Thanks guys!
-Shadow
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