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    Question My new HDD DOA or something else?

    Okay, so many hours later I’ve returned to this and here we are. The issue is now resolved because…the SATA cable wasn’t plugged in the full way. Noticed it straight away when I took the 6900XT out of the way and got in properly at it, cable popped right out when obviously it shouldn’t because...
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    Question My new HDD DOA or something else?

    Bummed. Just can’t understand how my old drive worked perfect up until I switched out those parts and now it’s dead and the new one I ordered is also DOA. Either a weird coincidence or I’m just seriously unlucky. Mainly, its use was to be just storage for my games, stuff like Assassins Creed...
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    Question My new HDD DOA or something else?

    When I format it in Disk Management I just get; “The format did not complete successfully” In File Explorer; “Windows was unable to complete the formatting” and in third party software I used (like AOMEI). It says it would complete but then immediately refreshed to say it was ‘unallocated’.
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    Question My new HDD DOA or something else?

    Windows won’t let me format the drive. Will let me do everything in Diskpart, up until formatting the drive where it just flat out refuses Cant do it in File Explorer, Disk Management or even using third party software won’t work either. Can see the drive, can clean it and create partitions but...
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    Question My new HDD DOA or something else?

    Here’s photos to help: https://ibb.co/wSZ4xSh https://ibb.co/XfRBybg
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    Question My new HDD DOA or something else?

    Hey all, posted this on other forums but just need help with this so anything is appreciated! Recently upgraded my computer with my new 6900XT and 850W PSU. Long story short, everything went smoothly apart from my 2TB Seagate Barracuda, Windows would recognise the hard drive but wouldn’t let...