When recently overclocking my i7-860 to 4ghz I was prompted to run a hard drive consistency check upon boot. I actually skipped the first prompt but when I noticed that my new hdd was no longer accessible I restarted to do the consistency check. It took more than 10 hours. The final few lines in the consistency check screen said that 7mb were bad sectors but the rest seemed ok.

I booted back up but my HDD was still not accessible. I tried formatting through Windows Disk Management but that gave me an error so I tried EaseUs Partition Master but that gave me an error as well: "There are some error occurred while writing partition chains on disk".

It now is showing up as Not Initialized in windows Disk Management and it gives me this error when I try to initialize but following the instructions didn't help: "The operation failed to complete because the disk management console view is not up to date. refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the disk management console, then restart disk management or restart the computer"


I don't care about loosing data on the HDD because there barely is anything on it since i just got it, I just want to be able to use it normally. I got it off ebay, it was new/ still inside sealed western digital anti static bag.

I need some help with this how should I proceed?


My System:

Gigabyte p55-ud3
i7-860
Sandisk Extreme II (on Sata II port)
Western Digital Velociraptor 1tb (on Sata II port)
Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
4x4GB Mushkin 1600mhz 7-9-8-24 (2 of them are rated at 7-8-7-24 but running all at 7-9-8-24)
Ati Radion HD5870

Oh really? It very much seemed like my overclocked messed something up like i figured the quite high BCLK for 4ghz affected the storage controller or maybe memory, I'm not sure but lead to the hdd errors that way perhaps. The drive still spins up and makes regular noises btw. Its just showing up as unknown and not initialized in disk management.

Okay so is the hdd completely useless at this point? I won't be able to regain access to it without a specialist? There are no tools I could use that might help?
I have never had this happen to me before so I'm not really sure what to do now specially cuz I just bought the drive.

Just to verify that I understand, you don't think that my overclock has anything to do with the hard drive errors? I had the SSD and other HDD running at the same time so If my OC did this they would have probably taken damage too right? They were running off the same controller.


So does RMAing this work even though I got it off ebay? I mean I don't have any warranty card or something like that. I just have the drive and its bag, no original Box.

Type your drive's serial number into WD's warranty page. That should tell you the drive's warranty status.

http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/warr ... sttype=end

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Use MHDD to do basic diagnostic. Check SMART, run a scan, etc.

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And before doing that return to defaults all speed settings to obtain accurate results...Overclocking can do bad things even to hdd's...

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I checked the warranty status and it shows up as Out of Region for europe. Apparently it came from the Asia-Pacific region because it shows up as In Warranty if I select Hong Kong for example.

I read on some forum that WD allows one out of region RMA per customer per year but I don't know if that is true and I can't find that information on the WD site either. Do you know more about this perhaps?

I will run the suggested test soon and report back with the results.

Alright Western Digital does indeed RMA Out of Region products like I said. I ran some brief hdd test but I will just RMA it now. Thanks guys.