I have just purchased and assembled a new computer based around a brand new ASRock Fatal1ty H170 Performace/Hyper motherboard.
The problem I have is that my two brand new Western Digital Caviar Blue 2.0TB drives are not able to be used!
The drive can be seen in the UEFI BIOS screen. The drive model is identified correctly, however there is no Serial Number (which I would expect) and the size is set to "0".
After booting into Windows 7 64-bit Professional the drive is not visible.
After starting Disk Manager and performing a "Drive Rescan" the device is visible, but is "Uninitialized" (which is expected).
The problem is that any attempt to initialize the drive results in failure. It does not appear possible to write to the device in any way.
I could accept one WD drive being DOA, but I would hope that two being DOA would be highly unlikely. However that means there is a problem with the m/board support for a standard 2.0TB drive.
Any suggestions?
The problem I have is that my two brand new Western Digital Caviar Blue 2.0TB drives are not able to be used!
The drive can be seen in the UEFI BIOS screen. The drive model is identified correctly, however there is no Serial Number (which I would expect) and the size is set to "0".
After booting into Windows 7 64-bit Professional the drive is not visible.
After starting Disk Manager and performing a "Drive Rescan" the device is visible, but is "Uninitialized" (which is expected).
The problem is that any attempt to initialize the drive results in failure. It does not appear possible to write to the device in any way.
I could accept one WD drive being DOA, but I would hope that two being DOA would be highly unlikely. However that means there is a problem with the m/board support for a standard 2.0TB drive.
Any suggestions?
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