My system is a Dell Studio XPS 9100, Win 7 Pro 64-bit, SP1, Intel Core i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80 GHz, 24 GB RAM. Boot drive is a Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB.
I used an HGST 4 TB drive partitioned GPT in this system before replacing the boot drive.
I tried to install a new HGST Deskstar 4 TB drive and formatting failed.
I had no problems when installing the first drive in this system last year. It was essentially initialize, format, and I was good to go. (That drive eventually died and was replaced by this drive.)
After physically installing the replacement drive:
- Win7 reported that the HGST drivers were successfully installed.
- Disk Management reported that the drive need to be initialized before formatting and I did, using GPT.
- After that it was all downhill. Formatting failed in both Acronis and Win 7 disk management. With Acronis I received an error message to restart, but after that the drive wasn’t even recognized in Disk Management as initialized.
- System hung on the Windows screen on boot; would not even boot up till I disconnected the drive.
I don't remember having to make any BIOS changes when I installed the first 4 TB drive.
The failed format triggered an error message in the Event Viewer:
Unexpected failure. Error code: D@01010004
I'm wondering whether there's a conflict of some sort or it's just a dead drive.