Keyboard Cowboy Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Can't seem to get it to initialize... Is this hard drive a goner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted February 9, 2018 Moderator Share Posted February 9, 2018 Look up SMART data. @warwagon<-has link... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Is this drive "F" causing the problem? The ~232GB drive? Usually GPT is used for 2TB and above. I would wipe the drive and use an MBR. What brand is the drive? It could be failing and the best idea is to run the OEM diagnostics they supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I don't think its dead. Use Free tools like Easeus Partition Master, and check the drive, as Circaflex mentioned you can covert the GPT to MBR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyboard Cowboy Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 9 hours ago, Circaflex said: Is this drive "F" causing the problem? The ~232GB drive? Usually GPT is used for 2TB and above. I would wipe the drive and use an MBR. What brand is the drive? It could be failing and the best idea is to run the OEM diagnostics they supply. It's another drive you can't see in that picture. The size of it is 4TB. 9 hours ago, Xahid said: I don't think its dead. Use Free tools like Easeus Partition Master, and check the drive, as Circaflex mentioned you can covert the GPT to MBR. I'll look into this when I get home later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted February 9, 2018 MVC Share Posted February 9, 2018 10 hours ago, Mindovermaster said: Look up SMART data. @warwagon<-has link... Yep, never hurts to check the smart data https://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted February 9, 2018 Subscriber² Share Posted February 9, 2018 9 hours ago, Circaflex said: Is this drive "F" causing the problem? The ~232GB drive? Usually GPT is used for 2TB and above. I would wipe the drive and use an MBR. What brand is the drive? It could be failing and the best idea is to run the OEM diagnostics they supply. It doesn't matter what size drive you use GPT on and you should be using GPT now, especially if you use more than 2 primary partitions. satukoro 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satukoro Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Gparted on a flash drive is usually my go to for messing with fussy drives. I have debian on on 128GB flash drive alongside a Fat32 partition so that I have persistant file access between Windows and Debian but also a bootable ext4 partition. It's saved my files (and others) on more than one occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyboard Cowboy Posted February 10, 2018 Author Share Posted February 10, 2018 Alright, so last night I upgraded my CPU, RAM, motherboard, and threw in a soundcard and the drive showed up working just fine. I guess maybe it wasn't plugged in all the way or maybe a bad port on the motherboard? Smart Data came back saying the drive was alright. I'll have to watch it for a few days to see if it does anything odd again before I really use it. Brandon H 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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