I bought a WD60EFRX 6TB drive which arrived last Thursday. It was working fine until yesterday, while transferring files on to it, my system froze. It is not my boot drive, just a secondary storage drive. I couldn't even get task manager. When I rebooted I got a SMART notice of a bad disk for that drive. I couldn't get Windows 7 to recognize it at all, under disk management. On Windows XP (I have dual boot), management recognized it as a 1400 GB drive. I could not initialize it. Hard Disk Sentinel identified a lot of errors (I did not note down what they were but seemed like bad sectors). When I tried to read/write to wipe the hard drive, I got a lot of I/O errors from Sentinel. Then the system rebooted on me during the process. Since Thursday, I had transferred a total of ~ 100GB of files to the disk when it crashed yesterday. I can't even format this drive. So I gave it a rest last night and tried this morning. Now even Win XP refuses to recognize the drive.
How do I wipe the data before calling Western Digital and sending it in? I have some strong rare earth magnets, would running them over the drive case do anything? Sorry, that might sound silly but I am out of ideas.
How do I wipe the data before calling Western Digital and sending it in? I have some strong rare earth magnets, would running them over the drive case do anything? Sorry, that might sound silly but I am out of ideas.