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Hard Drive won't boot windows.

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  • Windows 8
  • Boot Failure
  • Boot
  • Hard Drives
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October 8, 2014 8:54:52 AM

Ive been having trouble with my hard drive recently that makes me believe it is failing. I just received a hard drive from WD as my old one failed. I installed windows 8.1 and everything was okay for a couple of days. The hard drive began to boot up extremely slow (5 - 10 minutes) and windows itself would perform slow. Two days ago the hard drive would not even boot into windows. I attempted to boot off a flash drive to reformat the drive but that does not work either. If I unplug the drive, the USB drive boots, but there is not much I can do without my drive attached. With the drive plugged in it just goes to a black screen after the ASUS splash screen. This is my main computer for college so anything would help. I am thinking the hard drive is bad.

Specs:
Intel 4670k
Corsair H100i
Asus Z87-A
EVGA 760 ACX SC
WD 10EXEZ 1TB
G.Skill Ripjaw 8GB
Corsair CX750m

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October 8, 2014 11:22:38 AM

Well, since it's a fresh install of Windows 8, it's possibly hardware problem. By the way, is WD HDD setted as Primary Boot device in BIOS ?
Try to change cable which is connecting HDD to motherboard, or replace SATA position, and see if that will help you.
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