Recent content by peter 555

SuperSoph. Thanks for your reply and assistance. I haven't reset the BIOS. Will do that. Thanks

Thanks for the replies. I am busy at work so will be some gaps in my replies. I will install internally on a SATA port and see how it shows up. The Toshiba is usable and 3TB are available. I am storing data on both discs. They are both accessible by windows. It is like having 2 partitions. But...

Yes check the SSD is good. I have had something similar. In my case it has been multiple hard drives. These hard drives are good. But I have BIOS showing the SATA ports empty when hard drives connected. On an intermittent basis. I have now noticed that the hard drives are not spinning even...

I am new to this forum. Unfortunately I have posted this question in the wrong category by mistake. Should be in 'storage'. I have been reading through the help info on how to post and use this forum. On posting images the help info says 'check out our guide on posting images' but I cannot find...

Thanks Gamerboy. When I tried to add the space to disc 1 I got message saying that the selected basic discs would be converted to a dynamic disc. I am wanting the 1 physical hard drive to be 1 basic disc. Also when I tried that option the message "the operation is not supported by the object"...

Further info. 1 physical disk present. Disk management shows as 2 basic disks. How do I delete the 2nd disk and get back to 1 basic disk. Thanks.

During a backup to a SATA hard drive power was lost and the disk corrupted. I put the hard drive into a USB enclosure and I am trying to reformat. Under disk management the hard drive is showing as 2 disks. I have used discpart to clean and reinitialised as GPT using disk management But I cannot...

Update. Looks like the cause is random losses of power. Suspect PSU or power cables to hard drives. I have been plugging hard drives into different SATA ports and swapping cables around and testing with backups of large files. The backups keep hanging with disk usage at 100% On restart and...

My question is this. Is there a way of requesting windows re-scan and build fresh picture of connected devices on boot and not use saved settings ? I have a newish PC. Came with windows 10 pre-installed. Motherboard Gigabyte B85M-D3H There are 4 Sata III ports 0,1,2 and 3 with white connectors...