alright I appreciate the help then as I'm going to now assume the drive itself is bad

I can't partition the drive because I can't boot with it plugged in

No nothing like that, just a infinite boot

The drive is indeed blank, I've checked over the boot process. I've changed the different sata ports and even taken out the second drive completely.

I've went into the bios the drive indeed shows up, and my power supply is a 500w Evga 80+ bronze

no I have no way to test it in another computer

Just installing a third drive, my other two drives contain the boot info and such

I'm trying to install a new 1tb western digital hard drive, and whenever its hooked into my system I am unable to boot. I've tried changing the boot set up and changing around the sata cables. any...