I purchased a new hard drive caddy and installed a Seagate 1TB hard drive in it, booted up the computer, the drive showed up in Disk Management and I was able to format it.
But the next time I restart windows, the computer stays at the windows logo screen for abot 5-10 minutes and then it crashes to blue screen.
I tried restarting a few times and only once it was successful, but the drive capacity this time was showing up as 128GB instead of 1TB
The device is not listed in bios, but if I connect it to the main hard drive bay it is being detected.
I updated the SATA drivers in the middle of this all and after I did a roll back, the hard drive is now showing up, but with 128GB available and it cannot be initialized. Shows an I/O error when trying to initialize.
Also windows takes a long time to boot up.
I am using a laptop. As I mentioned in the first post, I connected it internally in the main hard drive slot and the bios was able to detect the drive. But when I tried installing windows, the drive wasn't listed and it said drivers were not found.
This is a hybrid drive, if that would make any difference.
To troubleshoot this drive, you are going to need another HDD Caddy/Adapter/Enclosure/Dock. Or a Desktop computer to plug the drive into internally.
It looks like the SSD section of the HDD is being recognized, but not the mechanical HDD part which has the most capacity
I have a feeling that the caddy could be faulty too. Could a faulty caddy cause a good hard drive to somehow fail?
I don't think the SSD section is what is being recognized. The disk has only 8GB SSD section.
Also now the windows setup was able to detect the drive when connected in the main hard drive slot, but still showing only 128GB capacity of unallocated space. Trying to create a partition is causing an error, "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the BIOS menu."
The USB Controller in the caddy could be defective
With the drive plugged into your laptop. Try wiping the drive in Diskpart.
1– Boot from the Windows Disc/USB
2- Go to Repair Your Computer, Or PressShift + F10 to go directly to the Command Prompt
3- In the RE (recovery environment) choose command prompt and type following commands pressing Enter after each bold command:
i) diskpart
ii) list disk
it will show the list of your drives.
Next you have to select the drive
iii) select disk <disk number> disk number = as listed in previous command, normally disk0 iv) clean (this erases all data on the Disk, so be sure you choose the correct one)
now for verification of disk status and free space type
v) list disk
the status should be "online" and free space should be "disk size" If this does not show the correct Unallocated Space size, the drive is defective.
If it could have, then I don't think I can use it safely now...
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