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Today, I decided to take apart my external enclosed hard drive. I bought this hard drive from the source a few months ago. It's 2TB. As I said, I took it out of its enclosure, and put the hard drive into my computer as an internal one.
All seems good there, but what I'm wondering is the SATA to USB controller I got through my journey.
I have only one spare hard drive to test the controller with and no extra SATA cables. (To Note; this hard drive will work fine through SATA as I had it in my computer and replaced it with the external hard drive.)
When I plug this spare hard drive in, the light on the controller blinks repeatedly without stopping. When it's working (for example, with the hard drive it came with) the light will stay on and the computer will recognize it.
My two guesses are either; this hard drive has 6 spokes on it and I'm thinking I need to make the drive a master or slave as the controller itself cannot decipher it by itself - if I made it one of those 2 things I'm guessing it would work (I can't do this, as I don't have that miniscule tool/splitter that does so). My other theory is, which is not so plausible since the concept seems very stupid, is that the controller is only designed to recognize and "control" the drive it came with.
Today, I decided to take apart my external enclosed hard drive. I bought this hard drive from the source a few months ago. It's 2TB. As I said, I took it out of its enclosure, and put the hard drive into my computer as an internal one.
All seems good there, but what I'm wondering is the SATA to USB controller I got through my journey.
I have only one spare hard drive to test the controller with and no extra SATA cables. (To Note; this hard drive will work fine through SATA as I had it in my computer and replaced it with the external hard drive.)
When I plug this spare hard drive in, the light on the controller blinks repeatedly without stopping. When it's working (for example, with the hard drive it came with) the light will stay on and the computer will recognize it.
My two guesses are either; this hard drive has 6 spokes on it and I'm thinking I need to make the drive a master or slave as the controller itself cannot decipher it by itself - if I made it one of those 2 things I'm guessing it would work (I can't do this, as I don't have that miniscule tool/splitter that does so). My other theory is, which is not so plausible since the concept seems very stupid, is that the controller is only designed to recognize and "control" the drive it came with.
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