PS4 will not load safe mode with new HDD attached, and I'm using one of the most popular drives.

After much research I bought a HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1TB to replace the stock drive in my ps4. Seems to be a very popular drive.

After about dozen attemps, I cannot get the ps4 to load safe mode with this drive attached. When I go back and try the stock drive it works fine. But every time I try the new one:

instead of the second beep happening after holding power for 7 seconds, it's more like 12-14 seconds and then I get the pulsating blue light for a while...then PS logo shows on the screen and I get all excited like it's gonna work, and then the screen goes black for another minute or so, the light on the ps4 changes to white and I get the error message "PS4 cannot access system storage error code (CE-34335-8)". At that point the only thing to do is power down.

I'm made sure all the screws are tight, I pushed the drive all the way into the bay until it clicked, I completely unplugged the power from the unit got 15 minutes etc. It's not an issue with the install save file on the USB stick because I can't even GET that far.

Please, anything you got...