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jlcobra

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September 28th, 2006 19:00

Problems adding 3rd SATA Drive Please HELP!!!

I have an XPS 600 that came with 2 160 gig HD's and wanted to add a 3rd for back up and to save all my pics and mp3's on. I ordered one from Newegg and waited and extra week because UPS shipped it to the wrong address. When I got it and installed it, I had problems from the beginning. It was formatting really slow and when it got so far windows would crash into a blue screen. I checked the Nvidia raid controller and it was setup up wrong so I set it up for bios to select transfer rate and it selected  2 gig to 3 gig transfer rate. So I tried formatting a few more time all resulting in blue screens and taking forever. Am I missing a step I tried to check bios and enable it there but its not detecting it and I'm not sure what slot it is in. But windows detects it and installs the drivers for it. What do I do?
 
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September 28th, 2006 20:00

What kind of hard drive is it, brand, model number etc?

jlcobra

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September 28th, 2006 22:00

Its a Western Digital Cavier SE SATA2 7200 8M cache WD800JD. It found it in BIOS seems I had the RAID ON,  switched it off then turned it On and it showed up in the BIOS. Still taking awhile to format. It's been about 1.5 hors and its at 33%. This is the first time I have ever had a hard drive installed other than for a partition with a OS on it. I have always formatted from windows OS disk to reformat hard drives but this is the first time I have used Disk management so not sure if this is normal. I'm sure blue screens aren't.

jlcobra

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September 29th, 2006 22:00

Ok I tried it a few more time and resulted in a Blue screen. Tried a quick format today and its been going over 12 hours and no results yet. I bought the drive by its self and then purchased a 1.5 gig cable from Best Buy. That is all the had. I checked Newegg for a 3 gig cable but had bad reviews for cable being loose. Could this be the problem?

jlcobra

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September 30th, 2006 21:00

Well No luck. I backed up all my files and reformatted my Active drives. Windows was messing up. Reinstalled all my software. I tried reformatting again but all result in lock up or crashed. I tried WD diagnostic tools and they found bad sectors and then later locked up. I tried WD data lifeguard and it worked once only took about 3 minutes to setup, partition, and format the drive. I new something wasn't right. I tried accessing the drive and it said it wasn't formatted.  Not sure what else to do. I just unplugged from the board and drives till i can get it replace it or figure out a solution.

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