the replacement drive is having the exact same issues. I have already replaced the drive once through new egg. I can not get windows to format past the 1tb point if I do a full format it stops at 54% and hangs if I do a quick format I get an I/O error. I am running Vista Ultimate 32bit service pack 2 all current patchesĪsus P5NSLI mb (award bios) bios is most current (1801) from ASUS siteĭrive is Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS 2TB drive As a leader in hard drive manufacturing WD proudly guarantees our hard drives are built with 100 conflict-free raw materials.I am having a formatting issues with my new 2 Terabyte Western Digital Drive using Windows tools (computer management: storage : Disk management)
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