Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM, wont recognize

[schmidtb26]

i7 6700
gtx 1080 founders
asus z170 mobo
512gb Samsung ssd
960 gb sandisk II ssd
16gb 2400 MHz ddr4 sdram

So I was just running a windows 7 system on this thing and I have since retired the system. Salvaged the processor, gpu and PSU but trashed the rest. Any who, I decided to hook up the Seagate to my system so I could reformat it and use it as an extra drive in a system I'm building.

Upon acquiring a Sata to USB 3.0 cable I connected the HDD to my PC externally with.
It only shows up in disk manager as disk G: removable and I cant reformat or anything.

Anyone have any ideas of whats going on here?

 

[ArtPog]

Just out of curiosity...did you really "trash" the ASUS MB, the DDR4 RAM, and the TWO SSDs? Wow!

So what happens in Disk Management when you connect the Seagate HDD INTERNALLY in the new (?) system? What precisely happens when you attempt to format the drive? If "bad things" happen, have you attempted to first delete whatever volumes have been created on the disk?

 

[schmidtb26]

Just out of curiosity...did you really "trash" the ASUS MB, the DDR4 RAM, and the TWO SSDs? Wow!

So what happens in Disk Management when you connect the Seagate HDD INTERNALLY in the new (?) system? What precisely happens when you attempt to format the drive? If "bad things" happen, have you attempted to first delete whatever volumes have been created on the disk?

Nothing happens when I attempt to format the drive. It only reads as G: Mass storage
I cant do anything to it in the Disk management

By the way I'm not inept all of that stuff is in the rig I'm using to type this now.
The stuff I trashed was older proprietary alienware stuff that only worked with like 2 different intel chips and almost no ram support.
I kept the PSU the liquid cooler the psu and the graphics card.

The Seagate I'm inquring about is from that build. Pretty much only threw out mobo, I/o board and the shell. Oh and the ram but it was 6gb and super low mhz

 

[ArtPog]

So if I correctly understand the situation, it doesn't matter whether you connect the Seagate internally or externally as a secondary drive to an otherwise bootable system...you can't format the disk. That's the precise problem, right?

If you haven't done so already, you should test the HDD with Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic program. Possibly you're dealing with a defective drive. It's wise to check this out at the beginning of your troubleshooting.

 

[schmidtb26]

So if I correctly understand the situation, it doesn't matter whether you connect the Seagate internally or externally as a secondary drive to an otherwise bootable system...you can't format the disk. That's the precise problem, right?

If you haven't done so already, you should test the HDD with Seagate's SeaTools diagnostic program. Possibly you're dealing with a defective drive. It's wise to check this out at the beginning of your troubleshooting.

Well I've only tried to externally connect it with sata to usb connection to my current rig stated above.

I'l be getting the rest of my parts for the build Im doing today and tomorrow so I will try internally then after installing windows 10 onto my SSD. I will then re-connect HDD and see if I can format through windows with it installed internally.

As of 3 days ago this same HDD seagate was running windows 7 flawlessly and I even ran multiple games and tested it through windows before I took it out to make sure it worked.

 

[ArtPog]

Hopefully it will all work out with your new build. It still would be wise to check out the health of the Seagate with Seagate's diagnostic program which can be accomplished even if the drive is connected externally as a USB device.

 

[schmidtb26]

Well, I've plugged it into my new build and reformatted, it worked right away

 

[ArtPog]

There you go...