New Hard Drive Woos

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gist901

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I just picked up a brand new 1TB Caviar Green HD. Popped it into my system and let the problems begin. First Vista did not recognize the drive, obviously, but Vista did not even inform that I need to format. So I popped in my Vista DVD, and formated it through that way. But still no new Drive. So I went under Disk Management, there it was, stating it was formated, and ready to be used. So I assigned it a drive letter. Restarted, went to transfer my files to the new drive, first my whole entire comp basically stood still, then the files would start transfering at around 80mb (which HD Tune told me), then it would plumet down to only 4mb, telling me its going to take me 3day to transfer 300GB!!

This is not right. I currently have my new HD plugged in Sata input #2 (My 640MB Black is in sata 1), and the drive I am trying to copy from is on Sata 3, although I do not think that this should matter.

O, if I first transfer the files to my main 640, they transfer just fine, at around 80, which is my old drives transfer capability. But then when I try to transfer from my 640 to my new HD, again it starts off, then hits a wall and begins to crawl. So I feel like the new HD is a dud.

Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!
 
Downlaod, and run the data lifeguard tools from WD. Test the drive. This will tell you if you have a dud.
 
just did that, ran it all night long, write zeroes, passed, now I am running read...
 
Well, there are a few other things you need to do to rule out other problems. Try a different sata port on the MOBO. Preferably one that you tested with another drive first. Try a different sata cable. Plug in a different power connector, preferably on a separate cable from the PS. Check to see if there is an updated Bios or Chipset drivers for your MOBO.

Boot into Data Lifeguard and run the long test.

That drive should average about 80 MB/sec in HDTune.

Don
 
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