dvr drive not detected

[windrows]

I have an Hitachi Cinemastar hdd recovered from a dish dvr. I would like to use it as a boot drive but my pc does not recognize it. So the internets tells me I need to turn off PUIS for the drive to be recognized but no luck so far.
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I have some seagate enclosures with the usb plugin sata connectors on the bottom. When I connect the usb 2.0 connector to the drive it is not recognized. However, when I connect the usb 3.0 connector the drive works fine.
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I'm wondering why the drive spins with usb 3.0 but not 2.0. Is this the known PUIS issue with these dvr drives when the drive powers up and works with usb 3.0? Or something else?

 

[popatim]

3.5" drives usually need more power then a usb2 port can supply. USB3 can provide much more power then usb2 which is why it can spin up with that.

The drive also is not formatted in a way windows can understand, you will need to use disk management (run/search for diskmgmt.msc) locate the drive there and rt click on it and select initialize/format. ** Make sure you have the correct drive selected! **

 

[windrows]

Thanks for getting back to me.

However, this seagate usb2 connector is designed to power up 3.5 drives. It connects to an external drive enclosure. It powers at least 6 different drives and this ex-dvr drive is the only one that it won't spin. I have 2 Goflex external drive enclosures with removable sata connectors. The 3.0 spins the drive and is recognized by windows. The 2.0 does not.

Sorry that I wasn't clear but the drive is formatted ntfs. Windows recognizes the drive when I use the usb 3.0 and I can read and write to it. But using the usb 2.0 it won't spin and disc mgmt doesn't see it. And the drive isn't recognized when I install it in a pc and try to install windows.

I understand the issue with these ex-dvr drives is PUIS. But I thought since my drive works with the 3.0 usb connector and not with 2.0 that it was not PUIS being turned on within the drive but that my drive was somehow locked for 2.0.

Does my Goflex 3.0 handle PUIS drives differently than Goflex 2.0?

 

[popatim]

Have you tried the hdat tool?
http://www.hdat2.com/

send the drive the /w command. It appears that PUIs is already disabbled on those but somehow checking the value "wakes" them up.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/694090-Strange-500gb-Hitachi-CinemaStars

 

[windrows]

Thanks for getting back to me.

does /w permanently wake them? I mean, my goal is to use this small drive for the OS...

Have you tried the hdat tool?
http://www.hdat2.com/

send the drive the /w command. It appears that PUIs is already disabbled on those but somehow checking the value "wakes" them up.
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/694090-Strange-500gb-Hitachi-CinemaStars

 

[popatim]

From what I've read it does even though it will say its already disabled.

 

[windrows]

I'm not sure hdat2 /w makes sense. Why does the drive work with the seagate 3.0 usb connector but not the seagate 2.0 usb connector?

It makes sense to me that my drive issue is not power up in standby because it works with the usb 3.0 connector and not usb 2.0. The drive setting is not being changed yet it works with one connector and not the other.

It also makes sense to me that my drive issue would not be solved with an hdata /w command because the drive works with the usb 3.0 connector without changing the drive settings.

Why does windows detect and spin the drive using the 3.0 connector but not the 2.0 connector?

 

[windrows]

Well sure enough hdat2 /w allows windows to detect the drive. But I can't initialize the drive. It errors with an i/o error.