How can I use a WD RED 3TB as a normal everyday HDD (NON NAS)

[JahBruzza]

First of all hello to all.
Second, I have a problem with my new WD drive and need some help.

Let me first present my rig and then the problem:
My PC:
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45
CPU: Intel Core i5 4440 Haswell
Video: MSI Radeon R9 270x 2GB
HDD's: A-DATA SX900 ssd drive - 128 GB
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 - 750 GB
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866 mhz


Now the issue: I bought a WD RED HDD 3TB to improve my storage space and since the buy, I was unable to make it work in my PC and I tried everything ... now I got to this forum and as I see so many problems solved here ... I thing this is my chance.

What I already tried: Start the PC with the sata to IDE mode ... all is good (always worked this way) but the drive is not detected even by bios ... windows 7 sees nothing for the drive
Changed to AHCI mode ... the drive is visible in bios but as soon as I start windows its gone. Also win did't boot anymore until I changed something in registry documents so now I use the PC in AHCI mode, WD RED drive is visible in bios but as soon as I boot it's gone.
Tried some variations like starting with only the WD drive ... seen in bios but when windows tries to instal, detects no drive to instal on. If I try to instal wile all the drives are connected, windows only sees the 2 old drives but not the WD RED one.

What can I do to make the WD Red drive visible in win 7 so I can partition it and use it as a normal everyday storage drive ???

Even tried a wd tool for updateing the firmware of the drive called wd5741 from the WD suport site ... but this also did not detect it as it's run from command prompt .... nothing works. I just thought that I'll connect it and that's it ... but no luck this time.

Then I tried setting a jumper on it (came with no jumper on it) so I first tried pin 1 + 2 for a SSC Enabled and tried all of the above with no change, then 5+6 for OPT1 enable this if I understand correctly halves the transfer speed from 6gb/s to 3gb/s ... with no result ...

So please help me out guys, how can I make it visible in win ... and use it as a normal NON NAS HDD ???

Thanks guys.

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

What operating system ?
Also 32 or 64 bit version?
Did you look in device manager for this drive?

Assuming this drive is working then it is possible the problem relates to size greater than 2TB
It cirtainly would affect trying to make it the boot disk
Which requires the use of 64 bit windows , correct bios options Uefi mode and gpt partitioning

This should not be necessary if not the boot drive
Was this a brand new drive or a drive removed from a NAS ?

NAS often use unix and traces of unix partitioning can confuse windows

Do you have access to another modern PC with Uefi bios to see if problem is the drive or your motherboard and bios combination


Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[JahBruzza]

thanks for the fast response mbarnes86 ,
OS is Windows 7 , 64 bit , checked device manager but only the other 2 are present there.
I do NOT intend to use it as a boot device and it's brand new not removed from a NAS unit.
It's never before run, unpartitioned as bios shows it at 0.0 gb's.
On IDE it's never shown, AHCI shows it but windows not, and in RAID nothing works (not even the OS)

Any ideas on how to make it work ?

 

[Y0GI]

Can Windows see it in Disk Management? Start>Run>diskmgmt.msc>Enter

 

[JahBruzza]

nope at the moment windows can not see it,
win seen it once when I was with the jumper on 5+6 (3gb/s) and in AHCI mode ... but in disk management when I clicked "initialize disk" regardless of the option chosen (MBR or GPT) it gave the I/O device error