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Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM0003 only seen (correctly) via ESATA

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June 22, 2014 10:20:58 PM

Brand new Seagate Barracuda 1TB.

If I plug the drive into my ESATA bay then every thing is detected correctly and Windows 7 sees a 1TB hard drive (and all my test files).

If I attach via internal SATA then the drive appears as an uninitialised 3.7TB (???) drive.

It fails to initialise with cannot find file?

Any suggestions?

I have tried three different PCs. Also Parted Magic (Linux) on another system sees the drive correctly!

I stumped!!!

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a c 119 G Storage
June 22, 2014 10:29:25 PM

Have you formatted it?
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June 23, 2014 6:57:25 PM

I said in my original post:

1) everything detected OK (and all my test files)
2) It fails to initialise with cannot find file.

But to directly answer you, yes NTFS. Also pretty hard to format the drive when it refuses to intialise because it is the wrong size.

By initialise I mean. The initialise function from windows 7 disk management. This function is automatically displayed by disk manager when ever you start disk manager and it detects any uninitialised drives. However it would be wrong to initialise this disk when I know it already has a working formatted NTFS file system with working files on it. But having said that I did allow disk manager to attempt the initialisation but it fails with error "Cannot find file".

Even after this failed initialisation I can plug the disk into the e-sata port and see a working NTFS file system with all my files intact.

Before anyone suggests. Yes the SATA ports have been tested with other Seagate drives and power must be present because the disk is detected even though it is detected incorrectly.
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a c 119 G Storage
June 23, 2014 7:03:41 PM

Try it in another pc - to see if its a drive problem or something else on the pc.
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June 23, 2014 8:15:55 PM

I7Baby said try it in another PC.

From my original post:

I have tried three different PCs. Also Parted Magic (Linux) on another system sees the drive correctly!

Nothing more to add!

Traci564 said: Contact the drive seller? Perhaps, you've got a fake drive.

I get them in batches of 20-100 at a time. All the other drives are fine so I don't suspect a fake (but could be) maybe just a dud drive in the batch!
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a c 119 G Storage
June 23, 2014 8:21:35 PM

If it didn't work in any of the other 3 pc's then its a dud.

If not, then it's a pc problem.

Re-install Windows.

Edit - try Checkdisk and Seatools on it in another pc
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