Problems with Western Digital HDD

It looks like you have a power cable hooked up to the jumpers on the drive. Your first picture the connector on the right. Try removing that connector.

DocBrown said:

That small power cable looks like a power cable for a floppy drive ????


Do you have a Sata power cable ?

I have a cable saying SATA on it, going from the PSU (it's black as well, the top of the cable)

ultraplanet said:

It looks like you have a power cable hooked up to the jumpers on the drive. Your first picture the connector on the right. Try removing that connector.

Tried that, didnt work

How many pins are on the power lead that you have pluged into the HD.?

I agree with Doc and Ultraplanet.

Should be only 2 connectors to that drive. Looks like you have 3. Disconnect the one on the far right in the pic, with the white plug.

jfar said:

How many pins are on the power lead that you have pluged into the HD.?

Which one? The one with the black end or the one on the far right?

Not the red Sata, the other one the power cable on the right.

Are you sure it's not shown in the BIOS ? ?
Have you checked to see if it's listed in Disk Management ? ?
Did it ship with a diagnostics CD ? ?

patio said:

Are you sure it's not shown in the BIOS ? ?
Have you checked to see if it's listed in Disk Management ? ?
Did it ship with a diagnostics CD ? ?

100% sure.
I dont even have windows installed on the machine yet
and No it didnt