Over the weekend, I upgraded my CPU, Motherboard and some drives to new ones. I now have four SSD's from the former two. One of the new ones is an NVME, which I use as a primary OS and applications drive. The second is a 500GB ssd that wasn't replaced. The other two are 4TB SSD's to replace the 2TB drives I had which is where I installed games, kept mod files and housed various video captured clips respectively.
Before actually going through the build, while I was waiting for the CPU and Motherboard to arrive, I copied the contents of the 2TB HDD's to the new 4TB SSD's. Now that the upgrade and build is done and running pretty ok the 500GB ssd is detected and all files are intact, but these two bigger SSD's aren't showing up on the File Explorer. In fact, when I go into Management, I can see them both with 1.6TB worth of unallocated space each. I right-click on them and every option but 'Properties' is greyed out ( View: https://i.imgur.com/7D8EEPd.png
). I even looked in the BIOS, and they actually do show the correct capacity there.
Just this afternoon, I had to redo the cables since I forgot to plug some stuff for the RGB, so I decided to see what happens if I plug the new SSD's to my laptop through USB using https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B011M8YACM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, which is also what I had to use to copy the data from the old drives. The laptop detected both drives without any problems.
Now, I try the same with the bigger 3.5" drives on both the PC and the laptop, and both devices want them initialized. When I try to do so, it gives a hardware error message again, on both PC and laptop.
So I want to ask what my options are in this situation? I of course want to be able to use the SSD's in their full 4TB capacity, and not lose any of their data inside. The last resort solution I'm can think of is to initialize and format the two 3.5" HDD's, copy the data from the SSD's into them on the laptop. But then I'm stuck with not being able to initialize the SSD's or the HDD's at all. If there's a different, better solution, I would much rather have that.
Before actually going through the build, while I was waiting for the CPU and Motherboard to arrive, I copied the contents of the 2TB HDD's to the new 4TB SSD's. Now that the upgrade and build is done and running pretty ok the 500GB ssd is detected and all files are intact, but these two bigger SSD's aren't showing up on the File Explorer. In fact, when I go into Management, I can see them both with 1.6TB worth of unallocated space each. I right-click on them and every option but 'Properties' is greyed out ( View: https://i.imgur.com/7D8EEPd.png
). I even looked in the BIOS, and they actually do show the correct capacity there.
Just this afternoon, I had to redo the cables since I forgot to plug some stuff for the RGB, so I decided to see what happens if I plug the new SSD's to my laptop through USB using https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B011M8YACM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, which is also what I had to use to copy the data from the old drives. The laptop detected both drives without any problems.
Now, I try the same with the bigger 3.5" drives on both the PC and the laptop, and both devices want them initialized. When I try to do so, it gives a hardware error message again, on both PC and laptop.
So I want to ask what my options are in this situation? I of course want to be able to use the SSD's in their full 4TB capacity, and not lose any of their data inside. The last resort solution I'm can think of is to initialize and format the two 3.5" HDD's, copy the data from the SSD's into them on the laptop. But then I'm stuck with not being able to initialize the SSD's or the HDD's at all. If there's a different, better solution, I would much rather have that.
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