I just purchased 2-1 TB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 hard drives. I've got an ASUSTeK M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3 (AM3) Motherboard with 6 SATA Ports.
Before purchasing these 2 drives, I had 2 smaller capacity SATA drives that were working fine. I removed the 2 spare older drives and then installed the 2 new drives. When I booted, they were detected by the system. I immediately went to Disk Manager to format and set them up. This is when the problems began. I was able to assign a drive letter to one and perform a quick format. When I tried it with the other one I got as far as a drive letter but the format failed. I thought the drive was defective after numerous reboots and checking my power and SATA cable connections. Then, the other one got flaky. I even removed it and installed it into an external USB 3 case I had and it seemed to work fine. Until I rebooted. Then, it would not show up in Explorer or Disk Manager.
I build my PC about 3 years ago and the bios has a 2011 date on it. Are these drives not compatible with my system? Because they must be OEM drives (bought them from Newegg) there was no instructions. I've not yet found any articles on compatibility. I reinstalled one of the old drives and it is working fine.
Thanks for any advise on this.
Before purchasing these 2 drives, I had 2 smaller capacity SATA drives that were working fine. I removed the 2 spare older drives and then installed the 2 new drives. When I booted, they were detected by the system. I immediately went to Disk Manager to format and set them up. This is when the problems began. I was able to assign a drive letter to one and perform a quick format. When I tried it with the other one I got as far as a drive letter but the format failed. I thought the drive was defective after numerous reboots and checking my power and SATA cable connections. Then, the other one got flaky. I even removed it and installed it into an external USB 3 case I had and it seemed to work fine. Until I rebooted. Then, it would not show up in Explorer or Disk Manager.
I build my PC about 3 years ago and the bios has a 2011 date on it. Are these drives not compatible with my system? Because they must be OEM drives (bought them from Newegg) there was no instructions. I've not yet found any articles on compatibility. I reinstalled one of the old drives and it is working fine.
Thanks for any advise on this.
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