I've been looking at a friends PC that was getting "eminent HD failure" warnings. Right after I started looking at the PC I was able to image their old 1TB Seagate HD with Macrium Reflect. So I ordered a new 1TB WD black drive, that arrived yesterday, and figured that I'd just put the image on to the new drive. Seemed simple enough!!
Today I connected the new drive to my laptop using a USB / SATA converter, did a quick format, etc and attempted to restore the image to the new drive. But I got an error message, which I think is because the old HD had 3 partitions on it and the new one didn't have any?? Instead of attempting to set up 3 partitions exactly the same size as the old HD, I figured that now that I had both HD's I could just connect them both to my laptop and clone the Seagate over to the new WD drive. So I connected the Seagate with the USB / SATA cables and connected the WD drive with a desktop dock. But the WD drive never showed up in "My Computer" or in disk management. So I disconnected it and attempted to connect it again with the USB / SATA cables, but now the power light on those cables just blinks on and off and the drive never shows up??
My thought is that somehow the dock damaged the WD drive?? It was a used dock, but I've used it a handful of times before without any issues. I was also able to reconnect the Seagate drive using the USB / SATA cables, so I dont think that the converter is damaged. But I have another USB / SATA converter at work, so I figured that I'd try that tomorrow, but I'd like to run it by the forum here for some additional ideas?? Thanks in advance.
Today I connected the new drive to my laptop using a USB / SATA converter, did a quick format, etc and attempted to restore the image to the new drive. But I got an error message, which I think is because the old HD had 3 partitions on it and the new one didn't have any?? Instead of attempting to set up 3 partitions exactly the same size as the old HD, I figured that now that I had both HD's I could just connect them both to my laptop and clone the Seagate over to the new WD drive. So I connected the Seagate with the USB / SATA cables and connected the WD drive with a desktop dock. But the WD drive never showed up in "My Computer" or in disk management. So I disconnected it and attempted to connect it again with the USB / SATA cables, but now the power light on those cables just blinks on and off and the drive never shows up??
My thought is that somehow the dock damaged the WD drive?? It was a used dock, but I've used it a handful of times before without any issues. I was also able to reconnect the Seagate drive using the USB / SATA cables, so I dont think that the converter is damaged. But I have another USB / SATA converter at work, so I figured that I'd try that tomorrow, but I'd like to run it by the forum here for some additional ideas?? Thanks in advance.