New SATA drives will not be initialized

A few weeks, I got a Western Digital Green 1 .5TB disc start coming out, so I quickly made sure I had a suitable backup and the reader sent in for RMA.  Then, I bought a new Samsung 2 TB and installed without problem.  Windows XP SP3 the drive recognized and allowed me to initialize the disk, the format and create partitions.

Then I had to restart my machine due to a software update and when XP loaded up, I noticed in 'My Computer' the reader is no longer listed.  I checked the Disk Manager, and while the hard drive was recognized, he began to "uninitialized".  Yet once I went through the steps to initialize/format/partition the drive, which worked perfectly, but after a reboot, the same question has occurred.

I tried to use another port SATA - no change in behavior.
I tried updating the firmware of the player - no change in behavior
I tried to use both methods of not formatting (quick and full) - no change in behavior

Today, I got my hard drive replaced by the return of Western Digital post and couldn't wait to install it and do it with (what I thought) was a nightmare drive Samsung.  I got everything in place correctly and turned on my PC.  Read the BIOS the drive fine and Windows recognises the new hardware and began to install the driver (I have another WD 1 .5TB already installed, so I had very practical pilots).  I initialized the disc formatted and partitioned to discover that the SAME ISSUE was happening on this new album.

I intend to try a new SATA cable when I get work in the hope that the question, but does anyone else have any suggestions?

Hi chrixated,

  • What is the number and the model of the computer?

See the link below to put on with similar problem and try all the steps mentioned, check if it helps.

http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/itprovistahardware/thread/c243ea98-9f77-43D0-8103-206b910cb9ac

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