WD Black initialization problems again...

[lykrain]

So the other day I made a post about how my WD Black 2tb hard drive couldn't be initialized under the disk management section of windows 10. I kept receiving errors and my pc was reading the hard drive as having 0.0gb. In the post we determined that the drive was dead.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2943278/brand-black-hdd-initializing.html

I went to the pc shop and sent in the old one for repairs etc and in the mean time I purchased another WD Black 2tb hard drive. When I connected it in to my motherboard i am getting the exact same issues as before. I find it hard to believe that both the drives were dead on delivery and that the problem must lay somewhere else. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated!

 

[jsmithepa]

Bad cable, bad SATA port, bad Mobo.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi again lykrain,

Well, you've done some extensive troubleshooting:
- cables
- ports
- HDD testing
- MOBO drivers

One other thing you can try is to update BIOS I guess. If the issue persists, the best thing would be to try it on another system(the one of a friend let's say) or find another drive to try on yours.

D_Know_WD