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Jake_86

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Just finished building a new rig for a buddy of mine. Everything else is set in stone but the hard drive. Did a quick format for the WD Blue 1TB HDD QUICK FORMAT, 4 hours ago. Still no form of progress of any percentage to keep track of since I'm doing this from Disk Management.

Told my friend if it doesnt work he should just RMA and get a replacement drive from the local Best Buy. Any ideas, because I know it should NOT be taking this long.

SSD has the OS.
 
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Just repeat the formatting procedure to be sure the drive is formatted correctly.
If you rebooted PC in the middle of formatting, then you can expect some weird behavior from your drive up to data corruption/data loss.
And check SMART data of your drive (You can do it with HDtune - health section. Post screenshot, if you're not sure about that SMART info.).
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Welcome to the community, @Jake!

I'd recommend you attempt to re-format the WD Blue from Disk Management, instead of the QUICK format option in the properties. You need to delete all the volumes on the 1 TB WD Blue in Disk management until the capacity becomes Unallocated and then, simply Create a New Volume.
The issue could be caused by a faulty connection/cable, so you should check if you will be able to format it from another SATA port, using a different SATA cable. It might also be a good idea to run both the QUICK & the EXTENDED tests from WD's Data LIfeGuard Diagnostics for Windows to determine the health and SMART status of the WD Blue.

Keep me posted with the troubleshooting!
SuperSoph_WD
 
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Jake_86

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I have done the deletion of the volume and was unallocated, created the volume and reformatted to NTFS quick format but to no avail which is where im at now. I'll follow up on your advice and attempt to change out the wires to see if it may be a faulty cable or not. Thank you, i'll keep you posted.
 
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Jake_86

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I stopped the format and rebooted the computer. The hard drive seems to be formatted now but windows never told me that the task was complete, so it's safe to say I've resolved the issue. I still swapped the cables as you said :]]
 
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SkyNetRising

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Just repeat the formatting procedure to be sure the drive is formatted correctly.
If you rebooted PC in the middle of formatting, then you can expect some weird behavior from your drive up to data corruption/data loss.
And check SMART data of your drive (You can do it with HDtune - health section. Post screenshot, if you're not sure about that SMART info.).
 
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