New hard drive prevents boot

alastc

alastc

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Hi everyone, I decided to upgrade my storage drive and selected a Seagate Exos 10TB SATA.

However, if I replace my current (bog standard 3TB) SATA drive, the new drive makes a beeping noise (1 sec on, 5 sec gap).

Also, my computer won't get past the "press del to setup" screen, even if I press del! Given that I have a primary M.2 drive with the OS, that is quite odd. (The storage drive is not selected in the boot-sequence of the BIOS.) My full spec.

I had started by putting it in an external USB caddy, and it had made the beeping noise and not appeared as a drive. From a quick google, that could have been due to lack of power going to the external caddy, which is why I tried plugging it into the internal power.

I'm assuming the new drive is duff and I'll send it back, but why would it prevent the computer from booting?
 
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Just replacing the storage drive shouldnt prevent it from booting up.
I'm assuming you have the OS on the samsung M.2 drive?

Have you tried running it without the extra drive, so just the M.2?
 
alastc

alastc

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@sibun1 - Yes, the OS is on the M.2 drive. I'm up and running again with a bit of work to do, so I'll try that later.

@Martinr36 - If it's plugged in, I can't get to the BIOS, that's the odd thing. The computer seems to freeze at the setup screen.
If I plug it into a USB caddy, it doesn't appear there.

I've been searching around and the beeping (and lack of vibration) does seem to indicate stuck heads, so it is not 'starting' as such.

It's just the odd boot behaviour that got me worried there was something else wrong with my system!
 
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It is strange, I would of thought the system would still boot up but just be unable to read the extra drive, rather than completely blocking it.
 
Stephen M

Stephen M

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No idea why the drive should do this but as you have a caddies try see if gparted can see the drive.
It is free software used for checking, formatting drives and stuff. Corrupt drives will often show up on that even when they do not work.
If it does show up and is marked corrupt a reformat may help but would think twice as that may void any warranty of disc, not sure.
You can run gparted from a USB: https://gparted.org/
 
Stephen M

Stephen M

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Having thought more, all I can think of is that some drives come with some sort of back up software, perhaps it is this causing the trouble. Still think dud drive is most likely.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

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alastc said:
Hi everyone, I decided to upgrade my storage drive and selected a Seagate Exos 10TB SATA.

However, if I replace my current (bog standard 3TB) SATA drive, the new drive makes a beeping noise (1 sec on, 5 sec gap).

Also, my computer won't get past the "press del to setup" screen, even if I press del! Given that I have a primary M.2 drive with the OS, that is quite odd. (The storage drive is not selected in the boot-sequence of the BIOS.) My full spec.
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So it's not able to complete the Power On Self Test (POST). That has to be because of the HDD.
alastc said:
I had started by putting it in an external USB caddy, and it had made the beeping noise and not appeared as a drive. From a quick google, that could have been due to lack of power going to the external caddy, which is why I tried plugging it into the internal power.
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That's pretty conclusive then. It fails as an internal and as an external drive so it must be a dead drive
alastc said:
I'm assuming the new drive is duff and I'll send it back, but why would it prevent the computer from booting?
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Because it can't complete POST.
 
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