Hard drive reconized but not at the same time?

TheKittenSlay3r

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I bought a Western Digital Red 3TB hardrive and when i put it into my computer it registers as WD (Then some code) i put this into google and it comes up with my Hard drive so i know it is not broken but when i check my moba's sata connection in bios it only shows my 1TB hard drive and when i try and launch i get stuck at the windows 7 loading screen, i have even tried to priotize my main HDD to load first.

Any ideas?

Side note- i can't even see it in disk management either.
 
Hello there, TheKittenSlay3r!

I'm very sorry to hear about your WD Red drive, causing you such issues! :( I'd suggest you to try the drive on another computer or using a dock station/SATA-to-USB cable to try to detect it externally, in order to be able to test it.
If the drive shows up in BIOS, then I'd recommend you to test it using the DOS version of WD's Data LifeGuard Diagnostic tool. It won't require you to boot into Windows and you'd still be able to test the health and SMART status. Make sure you run the QUICK and EXTENDED test from the utility and go through the steps on the download page here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=2Z6K4y

Keep me posted with the troubleshooting!
SuperSoph_WD