Hey guys-
I'm trying to add a new 320 data drive to my machine to replace the dying 160gb ide thats in there currently.
I tryed just doing a fresh install with the 320 in and had removed the 160. Took forever then gave me a message about the disk was unable to format, it may be damaged, etc~
Now normally, I'd say ok... bad drive. However this is a brand new 320 gb sata 300 Seagate drive. And, I got the same message with that last sata hd I tryed to format with this machine.
with the last one, I had tryed quite a few different things with no avail. Even tryed creating a single drive raid 0 array. Still didn't work. At that point I assumed it to be a bad drive and returned it.
But at this point, I find it unlikely to get 2 faulty sata drives in a row.
I've tried running through a windows install for the format, doesn't work. I tried booting to windows from the IDE drive and using windows to format the 320, didn't work. Took about 4 hours, then gave another cannot format the drive message.
I reset bios, no go. I made sure sata support was enabled and made sure that the sata spread spectrum was disabled. Still no go.
I even made sure all my mobo drivers were up to date, even though thats a windows solution and would have no effect on a windows install boot disk.
I'mplanning to take it to my friends shop to try formatting it on a different machine, but at the this point I'm somewhat stumped.
What do you guys think? Just another Bad Drive? Bad Sata controller on the mb?
I'm trying to add a new 320 data drive to my machine to replace the dying 160gb ide thats in there currently.
I tryed just doing a fresh install with the 320 in and had removed the 160. Took forever then gave me a message about the disk was unable to format, it may be damaged, etc~
Now normally, I'd say ok... bad drive. However this is a brand new 320 gb sata 300 Seagate drive. And, I got the same message with that last sata hd I tryed to format with this machine.
with the last one, I had tryed quite a few different things with no avail. Even tryed creating a single drive raid 0 array. Still didn't work. At that point I assumed it to be a bad drive and returned it.
But at this point, I find it unlikely to get 2 faulty sata drives in a row.
I've tried running through a windows install for the format, doesn't work. I tried booting to windows from the IDE drive and using windows to format the 320, didn't work. Took about 4 hours, then gave another cannot format the drive message.
I reset bios, no go. I made sure sata support was enabled and made sure that the sata spread spectrum was disabled. Still no go.
I even made sure all my mobo drivers were up to date, even though thats a windows solution and would have no effect on a windows install boot disk.
I'mplanning to take it to my friends shop to try formatting it on a different machine, but at the this point I'm somewhat stumped.
What do you guys think? Just another Bad Drive? Bad Sata controller on the mb?