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So, I received my WD 1TB Black today, and I knew that I'd have to partition it to install Windows onto it. So I open up windows 7 install via disk, and I run cmd and clean and partition the disk, then format, now I know format takes a long time, and at about 10% I had a power cut. Now whenever I try to carry on where I left off, it won't pick up the new drive. I typed rescan into cmd once and it picked it up, and then before I could do anything it disappeared again, bios still picks it up but obviously isn't a bootable drive. Specs are as follows.

Amd fx-8350, asrock fatal1ty 990fx killer, Nvidia Geforce GTX 680, and if I knew the make of the ram I'd tell you. Slightly concerned as well, when the install doesn't pick it up, what else are you meant to do? I'm currently installing windows 7 to an older 250gb drive I found to make life easier for me for now, but considering I only just received this harddrive, I'd much rather it not be broken.
 
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Narko

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I should probably add I was following:DiskPart <ENTER>
list disk <ENTER>
select disk 0 <ENTER>
clean <ENTER>
create partition primary align=1024 <ENTER>
format fs=ntfs <ENTER> (Will Take a While)
assign <ENTER>
active <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
exit <ENTER>
 
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Install Media won't even show it, it just appeared again and I tried to do the process again, I get to clean and I get "virtual disk service error: the object has been deleted". And it wouldn't let me install Windows on it unless I did partition it due to some sentence I can't quite remember. So how exactly do I get around this? Sometimes it shows up and other times it doesn't, and then the minute I execute clean I just get that message.
 
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So no one knows anything? I can't use the drive until this is done obviously, but I've never used cmd on the windows 7 install disk before, so when it cuts out mid cmd format I'm lost on what to do. I can't get windows 7 install to pick up the disk, so I really don't know what to do. I have no working copy of windows 7 at the moment so doing anything on the actual OS is out of the window.
 
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So now I can't even get the bios to recognise the new drive and my mobo logo screen is hanging for like 30 seconds, and occasionally it'll just go to a black screen with a9 in the bottom right corner with a mouse cursor in the middle which won't move. I bought this new drive to replace my older 250gb seagates as they're about 6 years old, but I have a feeling that the one I'm using to try and install Windows on is failing, as I just installed windows on it (had to change it to ide instead of ahci) and whenever I tried to boot windows, it'd get to the loading screen, load up and then it'd blue screen for half a second and just crash, not long enough to see the error. It wanted me to launch startup repair and I did and it couldn't find any faults, so I've just formatted it and installing windows again, but still can't detect the new 1tb. Could it be down to a sata cable? Because as much as I used cmd to format it and lost power, surely it should still recognise the drive? I'm a little concerned that if I try to RMA it that they'll just say it's my fault, and me being out of work, I'd struggle to pay another £60 for another new drive.
 
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