Question WD 1TB Black drive for storage now shows invalid.

[i6pwr]

I have used this drive originally as my C drive and few years ago. I have now designated it to storage as an external drive. I have used it a few times with my Sabrent DS-UFNC desktop reader/cloning device.

Now when I load it up, it shows as Dynamic and Invalid in DIsk Manager.

I tried to reactivate but I get the message "This operation is not allowed in the invalid disk part.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[fzabkar]

Can you show us the Partitions tab in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/

 

[dwd999]

Perhaps the Sabrent power supply is not functioning properly. Is this the HDD or m.2 version of that drive? If HDD does the drive appear to spin up normally?

 

[i6pwr]

Can you show us the Partitions tab in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/

I can when I get back to the PC later tonight.

Perhaps the Sabrent power supply is not functioning properly. Is this the HDD or m.2 version of that drive? If HDD does the drive appear to spin up normally?

The Sabrent is working good, I have 4 of these drives, two 1TB WD Black, and two WD 320GB Blue. All four are platter HDD. One black and one blue were not activated, I formatted one Blue drive which had little on it, but the 1TB Black has alot of files. The 2 drives that are activated work fine, even my 2 SSD drives work in the Sabrent.

No jumpers are used on any of the HDD's.