Hard drive wont format.

[youed]

Hey guys,

So ive got a 3TB barracuda hard drive that wont format. Ive run it through seatools and it seems to pass all tests. Can anybody help me out here?

 

[JustSomeJoe]

System spec?

 

[nhasian]

are you running a 64 bit operating system and creating a GPT disk?

 

[youed]

I'm running windows 64-bit. Ive tried making both a GPT and MBR disk.

 

[goodguy713]

some motherboards wont be able to acces a drive greater then 2 TB because of the allocation limits. Newer boards should be able to acess volumes greater then 2TB This may be your issue.

 

[confish21]

Is this a new Hd?
I bought a 2tb barracuda that gave me hell creating a partition. Ended up returning because of the never ending errors on a brand new drive.

 

[youed]

Yeah it's new, im running it in a external enclosure.