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New 1tb hd will not initialize, Disk Management Crashes
I just bought a Thermaltake Blacx SATA-USB Docking Station and a Samsung 1TB Spinpoint hard drive to go along with it. After connecting everything, I noticed that the hard drive is recognized in bios but not in Windows. The usb device installed alright but the hard drive is no where to be found.
I read that you had to initialize the disk before being able to format it. So I went to 'disk management' but I get this error "An internal error occurred. Restart the Disk Management snap-in." Then I press ok and the disk management window comes. I am unable to do anything at this point because another error comes up "Microsoft Management Console has stopped working." I am then forced to close the program. However in the background I can see that the Samsung drive is there.
I tried getting into disk management with the Samsung drive powered off. I still got the errors but I was able to actually look around in disk management. I then turned on the drive and the Samsung drive shows up. I right click to initialize but I get the same error message right away...
Any clues? If it is relevant, my hardware specs are somewhere down below...