Well I have been fighting with this thing since I picked it up a couple days ago.
The Bios sees it, windows sees it, I can partition it in Disk Management under Windows Vista. As soon as I go to format the thing, it just sits there and I get the following error messages in the the System Event log:
I consulted my motherboard manual and they suggest using the ports 1,2, or 5 for drives you plan to boot from. I have the drive connected to Port #5. For fun I tried connecting it to another port, same error just different port number referenced in the event log...
I planned to just grab an image using WinPE and imagex so I figured I'd try and do the partition and format there. I partitioned using diskpart etc. but when I tried to format, it just came back with a message saying that the format failed...
I downloaded the WD HD Diagnostic utility they reccomended for this drive. When I boot from the CD, it takes a good 4 minutes or so and then comes back indicating that it can't find a license file... I put the same disk into my laptop (which doesn't have a WD HDD anyway) and I got right to the diagnostic screen... Hmmmm.
Another thing I found was that when I performed my first windows install, it took a LONG time, we're talking a few hours. At the time I thought maybe this was normal since everyone was complaining so much about windows Vista install time... Maybe this issue is related.
Currently the BIOS SATA configuration is set for IDE mode. For troubleshooting purposes, I changed this to AHCI and tried to load this utility/windows install etc. with exactly the same results... I have since switched back to IDE since this is the mode that my copy of Windows Vista was installed with originally.
The strange part of this whole scenario is that I was able to run HD Tune and HT Tach hard drive benchmarks without an issue. Speeds seemed ok. HD Tune scores were:
Minimum: 77.7 MB/sec
Maximum 125.7 MB/sec
Average: 104.2 MB/sec
Access Time 7.0ms
Burst Rate: 184.8 MB/sec
Motherboard has the latest BIOS, no overclocking going on. Windows performance seems good (and I have been using it since last August for that matter) currently.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure this one out. See my sig for details about my hardware.
The Bios sees it, windows sees it, I can partition it in Disk Management under Windows Vista. As soon as I go to format the thing, it just sits there and I get the following error messages in the the System Event log:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
I consulted my motherboard manual and they suggest using the ports 1,2, or 5 for drives you plan to boot from. I have the drive connected to Port #5. For fun I tried connecting it to another port, same error just different port number referenced in the event log...
I planned to just grab an image using WinPE and imagex so I figured I'd try and do the partition and format there. I partitioned using diskpart etc. but when I tried to format, it just came back with a message saying that the format failed...
I downloaded the WD HD Diagnostic utility they reccomended for this drive. When I boot from the CD, it takes a good 4 minutes or so and then comes back indicating that it can't find a license file... I put the same disk into my laptop (which doesn't have a WD HDD anyway) and I got right to the diagnostic screen... Hmmmm.
Another thing I found was that when I performed my first windows install, it took a LONG time, we're talking a few hours. At the time I thought maybe this was normal since everyone was complaining so much about windows Vista install time... Maybe this issue is related.
Currently the BIOS SATA configuration is set for IDE mode. For troubleshooting purposes, I changed this to AHCI and tried to load this utility/windows install etc. with exactly the same results... I have since switched back to IDE since this is the mode that my copy of Windows Vista was installed with originally.
The strange part of this whole scenario is that I was able to run HD Tune and HT Tach hard drive benchmarks without an issue. Speeds seemed ok. HD Tune scores were:
Minimum: 77.7 MB/sec
Maximum 125.7 MB/sec
Average: 104.2 MB/sec
Access Time 7.0ms
Burst Rate: 184.8 MB/sec
Motherboard has the latest BIOS, no overclocking going on. Windows performance seems good (and I have been using it since last August for that matter) currently.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure this one out. See my sig for details about my hardware.