New WD not working via docking station

[arashm]

Hi!

So I got this docking station that i've been using before on my iMac, worked perfectly.
Now that I got a laptop PC it won't format my harddrives properly.

The drives are ok, just bought a new one today, same thing.
The docking station is ok to, it all works when I tried it on a Macbook.

So what happens is that the drive(s) do all show up in 'Disk Management'
as RAW and it recognizes the drivesizes too.
Although when I format the drive(s) it tells me (after a long wait):
"The format did not complete sucessfully"

I run external HDD's frequently on this PC and I've never had a problem, I'm only having problems when an HDD is connected through the docking station.

Any thoughts on what I can do?


The Docking station is a Deltaco USB 3.0 station
My laptop is a ASUS ROG 750
And the HDD is a WD Blue 1TB

 

[voyagerfan99]

Did you try using DiskPart instead of Disk Management?

Open an elevated command prompt.
Type the following:
diskpart
list disk

A list of disks will be shown. Determine which one you want.

Select disk "disk number" (without quotes)
clean
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs
exit

If you still have issues, test the drive with WD Lifeguard Tools.

 

[arashm]

Thanks for the quick reply.

So the commandprompt won't work, same thing there it times out.


And tried the WD lifeguard.
Got a reply about bad sectors and the other test all gets aborted or fails.

 

[voyagerfan99]

The drive is defective. RMA it.