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    New WD HDD, only shows in Device Manager, nowhere else

    Actually? Screw the Extended Test. Being the infinitely curious cat that I am, I went fishing around in the DLG tool and wondered "Hey, what is this Write Zeros thingie?" So I tried it, and after writing zeroes to the first and last million bytes, guess who showed up to the party! Device...
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    New WD HDD, only shows in Device Manager, nowhere else

    Hi D_Know_WD, Yes, the drive is recognized by BIOS as a hard drive (WDC WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0) and will even let me select it as a boot disk option. My mobo is an MSI Z77A-G45 gaming motherboard. I have attempted to attach the drive using two different known good SATA cables (i.e. the two that...
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    New WD HDD, only shows in Device Manager, nowhere else

    I just bought a brand new Western Digital Black 2TB internal HDD and installed it in my computer (SATA connection, cable confirmed good, Windows 10). It appears in Device Manager, but the volumes will not populate. It gives error "Volume information for this disk cannot be found." (Previously...