re: #184 b_sharp
You have a motherboard limited to SATA II and an SATA III drive. Normally that wouldn’t be a problem, but there may be a problem with that board dealing with an SATA III drive, or you could have a bad drive.
Do you have another SATA system you could test the drive on?
His old drive works fine and he bought everything new so there shouldn’t be a version issue with SATA..He been struggling all day. You should be able to help him out.