when u boot your machine does your bios setup recognize the harddisk?
if not then u need to contact the technical support because it sounds like a hardware issue.
from the reviews: noone reported a problem like the one u having but also many comments were made about the hdd's noise and heating up:
Cheap build quality, runs hot and noisier than other HD I've bought |
Higher sound and heat compared to the Seagate drives, but it hasn't crashed yet |
The Seagate Barracuda is a good alternative drive to this. I now question whether sata 6 gives you any advantage on a 7200RPM drive. Not saying the extra cache probably isnt useful mind you. But its not worth the noise-annoyance.
and the one that seems interesting:
There is a known problem with a certain series of these drives and the Marvell SATA III motherboard controllers. Those drives affected will only show up as SATA II drives on the Marvell controllers. Western Digital has a software fix, but you must submit a support ticket to get the fix. The drives with this problem have a firmware number of 01.01V01 and the full model number is WD1002FAEX - 00Y9A0. Other sizes of this SATA III drive have the same problem with specific frimware.
bios does recognize the new hard disk. – David – 2010-09-02T18:01:20.563
then it might be a drivers issue, try Gparted to see if its recognized and also u may try Grsync for cloning both are open source – eslambasha – 2010-09-02T18:13:08.117