I bought a 4TB WD Blue (WD40EZAZ) which I installed with no problems. Showed up in disk management, formatted, partitioned, then I even copied some files over. Then I copied some more files over & it crashed my PC. I waited for a long time hoping for it to resolve itself & ended up doing a hard shut down by holding on my tower's power button.
When I restarted, I checked BIOS & it's still there but when I boot into Windows, it doesn't show up in device manager nor disk management. It only lists my Samsung SSD (boot drive), WD Black (old HDD) & CD-Rom, nothing else. I've tried different SATA ports, different SATA cables & different power cables (I've tried using the cables for my WD Black which I know work). I've checked with WD's Dashboard tool, chkdsk & Crystal disk info & the WD Blue doesn't even show up for any of these.
The twist here is that I thought this was defective, so I RMA'd to Newegg so this is my replacement & I'm still having issues. It's not possible that both drives are defective, right? My gripe is that it all worked without a hitch the first time I installed the first drive.
PC specs (it's old):
Windows 10
i5-750
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
RX570
When I restarted, I checked BIOS & it's still there but when I boot into Windows, it doesn't show up in device manager nor disk management. It only lists my Samsung SSD (boot drive), WD Black (old HDD) & CD-Rom, nothing else. I've tried different SATA ports, different SATA cables & different power cables (I've tried using the cables for my WD Black which I know work). I've checked with WD's Dashboard tool, chkdsk & Crystal disk info & the WD Blue doesn't even show up for any of these.
The twist here is that I thought this was defective, so I RMA'd to Newegg so this is my replacement & I'm still having issues. It's not possible that both drives are defective, right? My gripe is that it all worked without a hitch the first time I installed the first drive.
PC specs (it's old):
Windows 10
i5-750
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
RX570
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