A couple of weeks ago I purchased a second hard drive (500GB SATA Western Digital) because I wanted more storage space and to play around with dual-booting Windows XP and 7. Initially everything worked fine, and I was able to install Windows 7 without any hitch.
After a few days my computer would start to crash when I used Windows 7 or tried to access files in the new hard drive from Windows XP. It got to the point where my computer stopped recognizing the new HD, so I RMA'd it to Western Digital and got a new drive a few days later. I install the new drive and try to install Windows 7 on it, but during the installation process I'm told that the Windows 7 installer can't format the new drive. I boot into Windows XP, try to format it that way, get an error message again. I try a different SATA cable and a different SATA port on my motherboard, no luck there. At this point I'm starting to scratch my head about what could be going on, since getting two bad hard drives in a row seems very unlikely.
One thing that I still want to try is plugging the new hard drive into the SATA and power cables that my DVD drive currently uses since I know that those ports and cables work fine. If that doesn't work then the only thing I can imagine is that I was very unlucky with hard drives. Any other guesses about what could be going on?
After a few days my computer would start to crash when I used Windows 7 or tried to access files in the new hard drive from Windows XP. It got to the point where my computer stopped recognizing the new HD, so I RMA'd it to Western Digital and got a new drive a few days later. I install the new drive and try to install Windows 7 on it, but during the installation process I'm told that the Windows 7 installer can't format the new drive. I boot into Windows XP, try to format it that way, get an error message again. I try a different SATA cable and a different SATA port on my motherboard, no luck there. At this point I'm starting to scratch my head about what could be going on, since getting two bad hard drives in a row seems very unlikely.
One thing that I still want to try is plugging the new hard drive into the SATA and power cables that my DVD drive currently uses since I know that those ports and cables work fine. If that doesn't work then the only thing I can imagine is that I was very unlucky with hard drives. Any other guesses about what could be going on?
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