- Jun 12, 2018
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I'm not a tech guru, just an ordinary user. The situation in a nutshell.
My secondary drive (1TB WD Caviar Blue, we'll call him Blue from now on) is not being recognised neither by windows nor in BIOS.
here's where it gets weird
- Doesn't make any weird, unusual noises (doesn't click like its head is stuck or smthn), it does make the usual power up sound
- Tried Blue on an Icy Box (external case for HDD) and then connected it, via USB3 to the same PC. It works fine, tested it for several hours.
- Tried 2 different 1 TB HDD drives on the same PC. Same connections, same cables etc as the faulty one, they worked just fine.
- Tried Blue again on the PC, worked for a day, then the same problem occurred. Immediately repeated the steps above, same results as before.
So, I'm a bit confused as to which component failed. The HDD seems to be working fine by its own, so are the cables and the rest of my setup.
Halp mi
(running an i5, 16gb of ram, win 8.1, tried cleaning and reinserting all of the components ofcourse before anything else)
My secondary drive (1TB WD Caviar Blue, we'll call him Blue from now on) is not being recognised neither by windows nor in BIOS.
here's where it gets weird
- Doesn't make any weird, unusual noises (doesn't click like its head is stuck or smthn), it does make the usual power up sound
- Tried Blue on an Icy Box (external case for HDD) and then connected it, via USB3 to the same PC. It works fine, tested it for several hours.
- Tried 2 different 1 TB HDD drives on the same PC. Same connections, same cables etc as the faulty one, they worked just fine.
- Tried Blue again on the PC, worked for a day, then the same problem occurred. Immediately repeated the steps above, same results as before.
So, I'm a bit confused as to which component failed. The HDD seems to be working fine by its own, so are the cables and the rest of my setup.
Halp mi
(running an i5, 16gb of ram, win 8.1, tried cleaning and reinserting all of the components ofcourse before anything else)
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