Anyone seen this error before?

[Anubis]

i never have

Trying to format some new seagate ST10000NM0146 and this comes up

https://i.imgur.com/wavRpc4.jpg

SATA drives connected internally. Comp i was running these on is an I7 3770k based system, updated win 10 install and all that jaz. no comp issues

Before anyone says the drives are bad - they are not, they formatted and checked out just fine on another computer (I7 6700k based Win 10)

i googled it and all i found was people asking about network of USB drives externals.

I don't really have an issue i'm just generally curious about this

 

[XavierMace]

I'm going with your SATA controller doesn't support 10TB drives, given they are reporting as roughly 1TB drives.

 

[Anubis]

humm didnt think of that

that one is running a ASRock Z77 Extreme4

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Z77 . . . OK. Did you install windows on an MBR partition, or GPT?

If it is a 10TB drive, it must be defined as a GPT drive/partition. I'm just guessing at this point, but your "symptoms" seem likely consistent with that trouble.

 

[Anubis]

not trying to install windows on it. i just wanted to initialize it so it could be used as storage. it would not let me format it as MTBR or GPT through disk management or any other tool. it would give that error on that computer

i was able to format and run them through chkdisk/crystal disk info/whatever on a different computer (6700k, Z170) without any issues - IE. the comp booted up fine, i went into disk management and created a new volume and windows was like OK

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Are those 10TB drives backward-compatible with SATA2 connections? I think the Z77 boards still had a mix of SATA 3 and SATA 2 ports.

I've never had the need for an HDD with a capacity over 2TB, so I wouldn't know firsthand about backward compatibility for these high-capacity GPT HDDs.