Drive formats excusively internal or usb...how do I get them to be universal as prior drives

[canticle]

I have some drives that I want to use as backups (WD 1.5Tb SATA). If I format them internal (XP machine), I will then be asked to format them when placed in an external USB enclosure (plugging into XP and W7). If I format them in the usb enclosure, I am asked to format when I hook them up as internal. When the drives return to the environment (usb or internal) where first formatted they are recognized fine. Previous WD 1.5Tb SATA have not had an issue with this...they are accessable in both environments. These new drives are the same model, but are newer. Any ideas on what is going on?

 

[Superoswald]

That should not be happening. As long as the drive is not a boot drive, it should be fine swapping it from an enclosure to a PC and vice versa. What formatting settings are you using (i.e. NTFS, FAT32, etc.)

 

[canticle]

That should not be happening. As long as the drive is not a boot drive, it should be fine swapping it from an enclosure to a PC and vice versa. What formatting settings are you using (i.e. NTFS, FAT32, etc.)

Thanks for replying--and I know it shouldn't be happening--as I mentioned my older, nearly full, backup drives of the same model (but earlier build date) do this swap with no problem. However, my 4 newer drives have this frustrating problem. I am doing full (i.e. not "quick") NTFS formats.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there canticle,

I would say that this should no be happening as well. Are you using one and the same casing for all 4 of them. If so, you can try with another one.
Also, you should make sure that you do safe eject before connecting the drive through SATA.

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD