I was building my friend a pc and everything went perfectly until I tried to install windows. When trying to install it says windows can not be installed on this disk. I tried cleaning it formatting/creating partitions etc with diskpart and it wouldn't work. I brought it home with me and when I try to initialize the disk: "Data Error:(cyclic redundancy check)" when trying to use GPT or MBR. Does this mean the drive is dead? Any possible fix or should I recommend him to return it? Fyi the disk is a 1TB WD Blue drive.
Run a chkdsk and check your smart logs.
I'd probably Rma to be safe though even though all CRC errors I've seen were OS issues.
I can't do a check disk because to do the command (if i am doing it correctly) is chkdsk /f label. It doesn't have a label because it can't initialize without giving me that error so I can't format it or do anything.
I would RMA it. 95% sure it's bad. It's impossible to run CHKDSK unless the drive is both initialized and partitioned. You will need another utility if you want to check the drive.
If you can get the drive to initialize and partition then you can run CHKDSK by volume.
Run mountvol
and copy the volume ID by right clicking the CMD window and clicking mark. Then you can select terminal text. Once you have the text selected right click the window again and the text will be copied to the clipboard.
Next, run chkdsk /f "copiedVolumeID"
It should look something like this: chkdsk /f "\\?\Volume{0691a7ec-c81a-11e6-9c77-bc5ff4c7a5e0}"
I would HIGHLY recommend RMAing the drive as defective. Not worth testing your luck with a drive that already isn't working right. CHKDSK will only fix software related errors and mark bad sectors as such so they aren't used. It's not going to repair latent hardware faults.
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Derp.
Could boot into partedmagic and test it but I would just RMA it mate.
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