[SOLVED] Shucked drive can't be seen by windows by SATA, but can be seen when hooked up to the USB 3 hardware it came with.

[ReaperOfBurgers]

Ok, so the story here is I have an older WD MyBook, I'd say 2014 roughly (was using it for storage for my Xbox One) and just recently I upgraded that's storage so I wanted to throw this in my PC. I had been using it as an external for my PC for awhile so when I went to shuck it and put it in my PC over SATA it was showing as an empty drive. Figured it was a WD encryption thing so I transfered all the files to another PC, wiped the drive, formated it, copied some things over and now it's not showing on any of my PC's as a drive. I can feel and hear it spinning up but nothing shows up. If I hook it back up to the externals hardware it shows up fine. Anyone able to give some insight? I have no clue where to start. I'll mention the drive inside of it was a WD Green 4TB.

 

[Jacozeelie]

Check in bios if it there, some external hard drives have linux based control software on it and windows cant see it. If so, you will have to use disk manager to delete the partitions and make new one, and a quike format.

 

[ReaperOfBurgers]

Check in bios if it there, some external hard drives have linux based control software on it and windows cant see it. If so, you will have to use disk manager to delete the partitions and make new one, and a quike format.

Thanks you, that worked! I only formated from explorer, I should have known better to do it from disk manager. Now to wait for terabytes of images to copy 😅

 

[popatim]

Awesome! Thanks for the update!