Hey all,
A while back, I purchased a 2TB SSD to function as an additional drive for my PS5, but as I have been using my (Win 11) PC a heck of a lot more than the PS5, I decided to buy a m.2 to USB drive enclosure (my motherboard only has one m.2 slot, and it's occupied by my system drive).
I popped the drive into the enclosure, plugged it in, got the familiar "new hardware ding", and under "This PC", it shows a new drive with none of the usual free space info underneath, nor a drive name. I've seen this before, and it was fixed in the past by initiating the drive under Drive Management, so I tried this, and it seemed to initiate (it recognized it as having a 1.82TB capacity), but it still didn't have a partition on it (it listed the format as "RAW" instead of NTFS).
I tried a quick adding an NTFS volume via a Quick Format, and it seems to freeze, but if I go to Resource Manager, it says the drive is pinned to 100% utilization. I've waited a few minutes, but Quick Format shouldn't take a few minutes in my experience, and it didn't seem to be going anywhere. I've rebooted with the drive plugged in, and still nothing. I'm almost curious enough to pop the drive into the PS5 and see if it's actually dead, or if it's an issue with the USB connection, or what's going on. Any ideas?
Thanks very much
A while back, I purchased a 2TB SSD to function as an additional drive for my PS5, but as I have been using my (Win 11) PC a heck of a lot more than the PS5, I decided to buy a m.2 to USB drive enclosure (my motherboard only has one m.2 slot, and it's occupied by my system drive).
I popped the drive into the enclosure, plugged it in, got the familiar "new hardware ding", and under "This PC", it shows a new drive with none of the usual free space info underneath, nor a drive name. I've seen this before, and it was fixed in the past by initiating the drive under Drive Management, so I tried this, and it seemed to initiate (it recognized it as having a 1.82TB capacity), but it still didn't have a partition on it (it listed the format as "RAW" instead of NTFS).
I tried a quick adding an NTFS volume via a Quick Format, and it seems to freeze, but if I go to Resource Manager, it says the drive is pinned to 100% utilization. I've waited a few minutes, but Quick Format shouldn't take a few minutes in my experience, and it didn't seem to be going anywhere. I've rebooted with the drive plugged in, and still nothing. I'm almost curious enough to pop the drive into the PS5 and see if it's actually dead, or if it's an issue with the USB connection, or what's going on. Any ideas?
Thanks very much
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