New HD not being recognized

Hi there,
Just bought a new WD blue 1T HD to slot into my PC, but it's just not getting recognized. Put it in, connected it to the board via the SATA cable - nothing. All that happens is that my PC really hangs booting up and takes forever.

Am I missing something in the process - am I supposed to set something up beforehand? I had thought of mirroring the two drives via RAID so that I'd have an identical backup, but as the existing HD is of a different capacity and configuration I don't think it would necessarily work, plus I'm just happy to have the additional drive as a backup for essential stuff - together with the external HD I use for backing up data occasionally.

Thanks in advance

Motherboard – ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Sound - Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS
RAM - Corsair XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB)
DVD - Lite-on DVDRW LH-20A1L SCSI
HD - Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB
Power - Cooler Master Real Power Pro RS-750-ACAA-A1 750W
OS – Windows 7 Ultimate (64)

New HD - Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

After hanging do you see it show up within BIOS as a detected drive?

Usually all you have to do is connect power and a data interface (SATA), it shouldn't hang the system unless it may have been DOA out of the box. This happens occasionally with HDDs that were mishandled during shipping or similar.

Were you able to initialize the drive in the disk management control panel in Windows? That is usually the first thing you should do. Or can you not even get that far?

Sounds like a bad drive especially with the bootup problem. Thsts the first sign of a hardware issue is freezing or slow bootup.

You have to delete c:\windows\inf\infcache.1 with a administrator account (full access).

When it's removed you can retry to plug in your USB-devices and the devices will work.

USB? This is SATA!

ktyuy said:

You have to delete c:\windows\inf\infcache.1 with a administrator account (full access).

When it's removed you can retry to plug in your USB-devices and the devices will work.

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That doesn't make any sense when he's having issues before loading the OS.

Agent Smith said:

USB? This is SATA!

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