Hi, I just successfully removed the enclosure of my WD Elements drive as I use it constantly anyway. I did originally format it as NTFS as a single volume, no other partitions. However when I plug it in using SATA, I get a notification to format it and it shows up in Disk Manager as this: https://i.imgur.com/zIADBIX.png
Unplugging it from SATA and using the little controller that from the enclosure and plugging it back via USB, the original partition/format returns. https://i.imgur.com/IsHT17G.png
I have two options: Transfer everything to another drive as big, reformat it internally and copy everything back (which would take a loong time...)
Or figure out how to have Windows recognize the drive in its original state. Preferred option
Unplugging it from SATA and using the little controller that from the enclosure and plugging it back via USB, the original partition/format returns. https://i.imgur.com/IsHT17G.png
I have two options: Transfer everything to another drive as big, reformat it internally and copy everything back (which would take a loong time...)
Or figure out how to have Windows recognize the drive in its original state. Preferred option