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GA-EX58-UD3D and 1 SATA drive. Can't format SATA drive!

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rlischer   05-07-2009 at 12:20:28 PM

I have a new GA-EX58-UD3D Motherboard and 1 Western Digital 300 GIG Velociraptor . I am not trying to use RAID just yet since I only have the 1 drive. For some reason I can’t get the drive to Format, I have booted from XP/Vista/Windows 7 disks and all see the drive, partition the drive, but all fail to format the drive. I have tried many of the SATA slots, I have tried switching to ACHI mode in the bios, I have tried loading the SATA drivers that came with the Motherboard. Any ideas?

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captaincharisma   05-07-2009 at 03:51:20 PM
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well if the problem is that it does not see the drive then the HDD may be starting to fail. the only thing i can suggest if you can find another program to format the drive something like partition magic.

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rlischer   05-07-2009 at 03:54:28 PM
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captaincharisma wrote :

well if the problem is that it does not see the drive then the HDD may be starting to fail. the only thing i can suggest if you can find another program to format the drive something like partition magic.



I tried partitioning and formatting with another Linux based app, still got an error. I am going to run Western Digitals diagnostics on the drive, it must be a bad one.

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rlischer   05-07-2009 at 09:47:23 PM
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mansalim wrote :

is it a new drive ?



Yes, never used from NewEgg.com

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rlischer   05-09-2009 at 02:34:48 AM
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The new HD failed diagnostics provided by Western Digital. I got an RMA and returned it. :fou:

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