Recent content by MrThomas

Boogieman_WD, it turned out you were right. I checked the hdd for errors, found nothing. I formatted it, deleted the drive in disk manager and had I not known about the GPT, I would have lost my mind. So thank you very much. That goes for all of you, trying to help me out. :) All my files now...

My motherboard is only a couple of years old, I think. It does say UEFI, I just call it BIOS. It has 6 different sata ports, two of those are 6gb/s, so that shouldn't be an issue, I hope.

Boogieman_WD, I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive itself, since it works perfectly fine using usb, for which it was originally designed. And thanks, I'll keep the GPT thing in mind. Still trying to decide exactly what to do rigth now. mjslakeridge, I bought it because the price...

Thank you for trying to help everybody. :) And sorry I didn't inform of the name of my drive to begin with. It's a WD Elements 5tb usb 3.0 drive. According to the box, it shouldn't have any encryption on it, as that should only be available with WD My Book editions. And yes, I do realize I'm not...

I hope it's not encrypted that way. My files on the drive actually are backup files, I haven't deleted the original ones yet, luckily. It's just that it took me a day and a half to move everything to the external drive. But thank you for your suggestion, unless an easier solution comes up...

I hope you can help me solve this, I'm running out of ideas. I've bought an external 5tb WD hard drive, that I wanted to use internally in my computer. Thus I've removed the drive from its cover and connected it to a sata cable & can see it in my Windows Explorer (Windows 10). However, when I...