Question Trying to recover my SSD and hard drive

[TigerJonny]

Just installed my new Crucial P3 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD. I cloned windows from my much slower Samsung SSD.

I'm having an issue accessing my older SSD and Hard drive. I get and error pop up box in disk management asking me to initialise disk, then get an error saying "data error (cyclic redundancy check)". Disk management shows the SSD I cloned from, but the other SSD and Hard drive are not initialised and unallocated, I've looked up possible ways to get back into to them and I'm not having any luck. I really don't want to have to start downloading and installing my games again. That was the reason I got This SSD so I move my games over could run things quicker.

Any help would be great.

 

[Lafong]

I guess you have 3 drives:

HDD
Old SSD
New SSD

You cloned from old SSD to new SSD.

Can you boot from new SSD when it is the ONLY drive connected?

If you cannot, the clone failed and you are back to square one.

I'm a bit confused.

You say "I'm having an issue accessing my older SSD and Hard drive." That implies you are not having trouble accessing new SSD. Is that correct?


You also say "Disk management shows the SSD I cloned from, but the other SSD and Hard drive are not initialised and unallocated". That implies your new SSD can't be accessed, but the old SSD can. Is that correct?

Maybe you can clarify?

 

[TigerJonny]

I have 4 drives. Yeah I can boot from the new SSD alone.

I have 2 smaller slower SSD's I cloned from one and it shows I can use that one, but the other older SSD and hard drive I can't get access to, that's the issue I'm having.

New SDD has been cloned to a working
Old SSD cloned from is there and ready to use
Other Old SSD and Hard drive I can't get access to

 

[Lafong]

On some motherboards...............using an NVMe drive will totally disable certain SATA ports.

I'd look at your motherboard manual to see if that might be an issue.

 

[TigerJonny]

On some motherboards...............using an NVMe drive will totally disable certain SATA ports.

I'd look at your motherboard manual to see if that might be an issue.

Yeah think that might be the issue I'm having it says:
M.2, SATA Express, and SATA3 4/5 connectors can only be used one at a time. The SATA3 4/5 connectors will become unavailable when M.2 SSD is installed

 

[GearUp]

Yeah think that might be the issue I'm having it says:
M.2, SATA Express, and SATA3 4/5 connectors can only be used one at a time. The SATA3 4/5 connectors will become unavailable when M.2 SSD is installed

Since you must have 6 connectors you should be able to connect at least four drives. Anything you would need to do should be accessible using Disk Management.

 

[TigerJonny]

Yeah think that might be the issue I'm having it says:
M.2, SATA Express, and SATA3 4/5 connectors can only be used one at a time. The SATA3 4/5 connectors will become unavailable when M.2 SSD is installed

Thank you. Just move my sata cables around and I've got access to them again. Now i've just got to move stuff around