Ok so first off I am a computer noobie. I am just coming off a fresh build and have some questions. I installed a 128GB ssd as my boot drive and a 1TB hdd as a storage drive. I just cannot seem to get this HDD to work properly. The issue I am having is it seems like everytime I try to install or download something onto the HDD it does not work properly. For instance... last night i decided to download itunes and put it on my HDD. Well I directed the install to the HDD and everything seemed to go smoothly until about halway through the download it just froze. I ended up having to end the process and boy did that cause some huge issues.
First thing it did was removed all of my desktop icons and taskbars. So i had to do a manual reboot. WHen I did that my computer automatically changed my boot order to the HDD as the boot drive. WEll there is no OS on my HDD. I rebooted again and went into bios and changed the boot order back to the normal configuration with my ssd as being my primary. Then I got a disk read error and had to reboot again. After about 2 more reboots I finally was able to run startup repair and ended up having to do a system restore to get windows to load back up.
Ok so everything was back up and running fine. There were some itunes files from the installation in my HDD so i tried deleting them. This froze up my computer and caused me to manually reboot again and i got another disk read error then rebooted again and it loaded windows. So i went and deleted the partition (primary partition full disk size). I tried a quick reformat and it said it could not format the drive
. So now I am doing a full format and it has been formatting for almost 18 hours. I dont know if its going to do it or not. I have already did 1 RMA On this drive because of it doing the same thing with the freezing when installing a program. I have got to be doing something wrong. WOuld someone enlighten me on how to use this secondary HDD properly. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
also what do i do if this full partition doesnt work?
First thing it did was removed all of my desktop icons and taskbars. So i had to do a manual reboot. WHen I did that my computer automatically changed my boot order to the HDD as the boot drive. WEll there is no OS on my HDD. I rebooted again and went into bios and changed the boot order back to the normal configuration with my ssd as being my primary. Then I got a disk read error and had to reboot again. After about 2 more reboots I finally was able to run startup repair and ended up having to do a system restore to get windows to load back up.
Ok so everything was back up and running fine. There were some itunes files from the installation in my HDD so i tried deleting them. This froze up my computer and caused me to manually reboot again and i got another disk read error then rebooted again and it loaded windows. So i went and deleted the partition (primary partition full disk size). I tried a quick reformat and it said it could not format the drive
. So now I am doing a full format and it has been formatting for almost 18 hours. I dont know if its going to do it or not. I have already did 1 RMA On this drive because of it doing the same thing with the freezing when installing a program. I have got to be doing something wrong. WOuld someone enlighten me on how to use this secondary HDD properly. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
also what do i do if this full partition doesnt work?