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Check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
HD Diagnostic
Check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
HD Diagnostic
You may try to go to the Western Digital Site and download their diagnostics program as well as some other downloads they offer.
essenbe and theog,
Thanks, running WD's tools now
Thanks
Stu
Greetings,
Attempted to format a 2 TB internal drive using a USB 3.0 dockiing station via an USB 2.0 port. After two days, I gave up.
Purchased a USB 2.0/e-SATA docking station and connnecting it to my e-SATA port. It still took over 5 hours. I do not know actual completion time, but it did complete.
Thanks to all who read and replied
Stu
What is actually the point of making a full format?
I did and do quick formats on every drive I ever owned on a PC without any mechanical failures or sector problems at all.
Misc. Facts:
At 2 TB you are at the conventional BIOS-MBR limit. Beyond this you need GPT or EFI. Also, some drivers may have problems at this capacity (eg. older Nvidia nForce sata drivers). Other people are experiencing your problem.
Suggestions:
1) Check that your BIOS is seeing the 2TB
2) Update your drivers. Some people have solved the problem by updating their drivers.
This is a Seagate post and related to Vista - but may be helpful
1.5TB (ST31500341AS) or larger SATA hard drive only showing 1.1TB capacity in Windows Vista
The other things I might try is to partition the drive (say in 3) and start formating each partition in turn and note the results.
Download Crystal Disk Info to monitor your HDD SMART data.
http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html