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Another bad HDD? "device not ready"
I hope this isn't a futile situation, but I had a failing (I thought) 1TB HDD, so I got a new 2TB seagate HDD. I attached the hard drive, got it on the system, it was recognized and initialized, and copied the files over.
I checked everything to make sure it was good, wiped the other drive and removed. it.
Then, the next day when I turned the computer back on, I couldn't see the new hard drive. I switched connections, power plugs, nothing. Then after several tries, I got it to show up.
The problem is that it says that it needs to be initialized again, and when I try, it says "device not ready" and closes.
Am I up a creek with a new bad drive? Or could it be something else. I can't help but wonder if the problem isn't the PSU or the MSI motherboard, though neither is over a year old.
Any suggestions?