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I am having trouble initializing an HDD that I have connected to my PC via USB. I'm stuck, and I need some ideas. Below is detail.
I am running Windows 10. The outboard HDD disk in question was previously the internal C: drive on this PC. I replaced it with a larger drive about four months ago purely so I would have more storage capacity; it was running fine at the time I replaced it, and it has been stored carefully since. I am using a USB 2.0 to IDE SATA adapter cable to connect the disk to my PC via one of the PC's USB ports. I've used this same cable to connect other HDDs to this same PC in the same manner successfully in the past.
When I navigate to ThisPC, the drive does not appear. I right-click on START, choose Disk Management, and the following is displayed:
I click OK, and the following is displayed:
I run DiskPart, and I get this:
The Event Viewer shows me this:
... and this:
... and this:
Note that the second to last screen says the disk was "not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match".
I have no idea where to go from here.
Easy responses would be "the disk is bad" or "the disk is old and no longer supported". I doubt that either is the case. The disk worked fine until it was excised from the machine and replaced four months ago. Since then, it's been stored carefully and not subjected to impact, moisture, extremes of temperature, etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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I see that screen too. But when I select option #1 (or let the machine time-out into option #1) I don't get the desktop that you get.
I'm not sure what you mean by the POST screen. When I go into BIOS, there is an option to boot from CD/DVD, but not anything like UEFI CD/DVD. Is that what you mean?
Hi,
The Boot Options is similar to the Bios settings, but different... It selects a One-Time Boot Device only...
The biggest difference is that it sometimes offers more options...
On my machine for instance, the "UEFI USB" and "UEFI CD\DVD" do not appear in the Boot Selection in Bios, but do appear in the Boot Options...
The POST screen is the first screen you see... Usually with the manufacturer's logo appearing...
How you access it varies by manufacturer... It is usually something like F9, F11, F12, or ESC... Sometimes you need to be quick tapping it... as soon as the POST Screen appears..
Hi,
I should have mentioned that your problematic HDD may be triggering some type of automatic fix in Parted Magic that I have never seen before...
I have in fact used it for failed drives, but maybe not with the same issues as your's is having...
If you want to experiment, here is a link to a bootable Disk Management program called Partition Wizard 9.1... There is a newer version, but it relies on a Windows 10 repair function to work...
This program does not have a "File Explorer" function, but does have the ability to recover deleted partitions... At least under some circumstances...
