I am catching up on some hard drive issues last week. I have a Toshiba 8 TB drive that I bought brand new in 2021. Around the same time, I noticed that my OWC SoftRAID software included a drive test. I decided to try it out on my new drive before it had any data on it. I am not used to having 8TB drives, so I was worried about loosing data.<\/p>\n
THE PROBLEM<\/strong><\/p>\n After the test, there was no error message, but the drive became unusable, it was not readable or formattable on any operating system I had Mac or Windows. I contacted the vendor to find out that you have to be careful buying computer parts from NewEgg. This drive was sold to me by a store hosted on the NewEgg site, but it was not NewEgg, similar to the method used by Amazon. Ok, a learning experience for me, the vendor said there was no warrantee provided.<\/p>\n ADVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact the drive manufacturer immediately. I did not think about contacting the drive manufacturer after the vendor told me no warrantee. This is what I advise you to do, if you bought a new drive there is a manufacturer’s warrantee. I had a very prompt reply from Toshiba and the warrantee from the manufacturer on my drive was 3 years. If I had contacted them right away, I could probably had the drive replaced. However, I did not know this at the time and it had expired.<\/p>\n I put the drive back in the box and life happened. Fast forward to 2026, I found the drive box and I really need the TB space. I decided to try again. After trying CLI on Windows and Mac to erase the drive, I was able to format a small section of just over 1 GB in Mac. <\/p>\n Checking on Reddit for similar issues, I found a thread where someone had the same problem.<\/p>\n