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Disk Read Error with new hard drive

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Lone_Star_Lynch

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My brother just bought a new 1 TB Western Digital drive. I helped him install it, we booted up and had some problems. First, Windows wouldn't boot; it would just hang on a black screen with a blinking cursor. Unplugging the new drive would allow us to get into windows.

After messing around for a bit I got into windows with the new drive actually plugged in. We got it formatted and succeeded in starting a game download on it. But then Steam froze up, quickly followed by the OS. The mouse cursor still worked, but we couldn't click anything.

So we reset the PC. Now we are getting disk read errors after a long wait on the same black screen with the blinking cursor. There was one "BootMGR image is corrupt" error we got, due to the BIOS setting 1st boot priority to this new drive, or so I believe. Half the time I can't get into the BIOS. Again, unhooking the power from the new hard drive makes everything go back to normal.

The hard drive is still detected just fine, I can see it in the BIOS. I'm at a loss here, maybe you guys can help me out. In the meantime I'll get back to work on it.

If it helps at all the OS is installed on an Intel 40gb SSD. The only other hard drives are this new one and an older 250gb WD drive; there used to be two of these, but one failed.

EDIT UPDATE: Switched to a different SATA port on mobo, and we're back in windows. Hard drive not detected in My Computer or disk management. Restarting now to see what happens.

PC specs:
ASUS Crosshair Formula V Formula-Z Mobo
FX 8350 Black Edition
16gb G-Skill 1333 mhz
 
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The drive could be dead. There is always a chance of getting a DOA drive. Take a look at what CrystalDiskInfo says about the drive.
 
I just moved the drive over into my own PC, and...

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DOA would have been nice since the course of action is at least clear. Specs for my PC in sig; pretty close to what my brother has.
 
BUMP and update: So the hard drive works perfectly fine in my computer, but is not detected at all in my brother's. Does anyone know what could possibly cause this? I don't think I've ever had this happen before. At least we are able to get in windows now. I've tried 2 different SATA cables but I suppose I might be able to find another, just in case that is the problem
 
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Power supply, bad sata cable, bad mobo.

Basically thats about it.
 
If you post CrystalDiskInfo screenshots, at least make sure all the values are visible. Otherwise it is pretty useless.
 
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