So I just bought a Seagate 4TB and threw it into my desktop. Upon booting, the computer hung up a little bit after POST, but eventually it booted up normally. It then told me the drivers installed correctly, and sure enough the hard drive shows up in my device manager, but when I go to Disk Manager to partition the drive, it asks me what I want to do with it then I get the whole "Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".
I have it connected properly into a SATA 6gb/s port with the right cable. I swapped around cables and drives inside my system and nothing seems to change. It is spinning (it's vibrating), and it pops up as Disk 3 in Disk Management, but it just won't initialize. The BIOS doesn't seem to see that it's there either.
Someone please tell me I didn't get a $160 paperweight. I Googled the problem but didn't seem to find anything on these drives not initializing properly, and anything I found on Google on this subject didn't really help me out. Any suggestions?
EDIT: For what it's work, Disk Management also says there's only 128GB on the drive.
I have it connected properly into a SATA 6gb/s port with the right cable. I swapped around cables and drives inside my system and nothing seems to change. It is spinning (it's vibrating), and it pops up as Disk 3 in Disk Management, but it just won't initialize. The BIOS doesn't seem to see that it's there either.
Someone please tell me I didn't get a $160 paperweight. I Googled the problem but didn't seem to find anything on these drives not initializing properly, and anything I found on Google on this subject didn't really help me out. Any suggestions?
EDIT: For what it's work, Disk Management also says there's only 128GB on the drive.