Hi All,
I'm building a new system, but some parts have arrived before others. I got the HDDs a couple weeks ago (WD Caviar Black 640GB and 1TB), so I want to make sure they're looking good before it gets tough to RMA them. So I just put the 640GB in an enclosure, and I don't *think* that my computer can detect it. I say think because of the following
A) the enclosure itself is detected, same as it always is, as a SATA to USB bridge. Usually, when I have a HDD in there within the SATA to USB bridge (treated like another computer), it has the drive.
B) When I connected it, a driver installed and it said the device is ready to use (I've already used the enclosure before with this computer).
I don't think it's a problem with the enclosure, since I just tried another HDD in it. One thing I considered is that this enclosure (a couple years old now, an Eagle Consus) doesn't support storage as large as 640GB, but the one I just had in it was a 500GB HDD, so I felt it was unlikely that that would be the cutoff, or that if it is that it wouldn't recognize the drive at all.
In either case, is the drive bricked/should I RMA it? Or are there things I can/should try?
Thanks!
I'm building a new system, but some parts have arrived before others. I got the HDDs a couple weeks ago (WD Caviar Black 640GB and 1TB), so I want to make sure they're looking good before it gets tough to RMA them. So I just put the 640GB in an enclosure, and I don't *think* that my computer can detect it. I say think because of the following
A) the enclosure itself is detected, same as it always is, as a SATA to USB bridge. Usually, when I have a HDD in there within the SATA to USB bridge (treated like another computer), it has the drive.
B) When I connected it, a driver installed and it said the device is ready to use (I've already used the enclosure before with this computer).
I don't think it's a problem with the enclosure, since I just tried another HDD in it. One thing I considered is that this enclosure (a couple years old now, an Eagle Consus) doesn't support storage as large as 640GB, but the one I just had in it was a 500GB HDD, so I felt it was unlikely that that would be the cutoff, or that if it is that it wouldn't recognize the drive at all.
In either case, is the drive bricked/should I RMA it? Or are there things I can/should try?
Thanks!