I apologize if the solution to my problem is really obvious, and I am being obtuse, but I am at a loss and would appreciate your help.
The hard drive in question is a western digital purple of 8 tb WD82PURZ-85TEUY0
I tried changing the cables, they work on other drives.
There was a post about some new western digital drives shutting down due to power settings, and how this can be bypassed by using a Molex connection, I did this, and am able to keep the drive on.
But it is still not recognized in any of the following:
the bios
disk management
the command prompt
a bootable usb with gparted
testdisk 7.2,
However it is recognized in gsmart control and in Intel’s rapid storage technology. In the later it appears with a lock symbol and has the following message:
Sata disk on controller 0, port 2: Locked
It says it is not password protected.
I just got this a few hours ago so it would be very bad luck if it is damaged.
How can I unlock it? and generate new partitions on it?
Thank you for your help. And I apologize if I am bothering you without doing my research.
My motherboard’s model is GA-B85M-D3H
The hard drive in question is a western digital purple of 8 tb WD82PURZ-85TEUY0
I tried changing the cables, they work on other drives.
There was a post about some new western digital drives shutting down due to power settings, and how this can be bypassed by using a Molex connection, I did this, and am able to keep the drive on.
But it is still not recognized in any of the following:
the bios
disk management
the command prompt
a bootable usb with gparted
testdisk 7.2,
However it is recognized in gsmart control and in Intel’s rapid storage technology. In the later it appears with a lock symbol and has the following message:
Sata disk on controller 0, port 2: Locked
It says it is not password protected.
I just got this a few hours ago so it would be very bad luck if it is damaged.
How can I unlock it? and generate new partitions on it?
Thank you for your help. And I apologize if I am bothering you without doing my research.
My motherboard’s model is GA-B85M-D3H