HD Caddy with intermittent I/O Error

rorschaff

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Jan 30, 2015
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I am having a problem consistently maintaining access to my hard drive within an HD Caddy.

• I just installed my new hard drive caddy to replace my cd/dvd rom drive.

• The Caddy is, DBPOWER SATA 2.5" / 9.5mm 2nd Hard Disk Drive Caddy Adapter.

• I installed the OLD HDD into the caddy (Seagate ST500LT012-1DG142).

• The OLD HDD was the original HD that the laptop came with.

• I replaced the OLD HDD with a KINGSTON SV300S37/A240G SSD.

• This SSD works without any issue.

• The old HDD worked without any issue.

• I plugged the old HDD into my desktop to test it out, and it works without issue (files can be transferred to and from it; it can be formatted (Quick and Normal); and partitions can be managed).

• When I put the OLD HDD into the caddy and boot up the laptop—no problems.

• When I try to format the OLD HDD in the laptop, it always fails before the format can finish.

• When I successfully format the OLD HDD in my desktop PC, and migrate it over to my Laptop, I cannot transfer files to it on my laptop, or create new folders, and etc.

• Now for a miracle.

• *Voodoo/Miracle* The OLD HDD works perfectly fine for a day or two in my laptop within the HD CADDY.

• Now it doesn’t work.

• When it doesn’t work the error I get when transferring files is, “Error 0x8007045D: the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error

• I’m guessing it’s going to work on and off forever at this rate, but I don’t know why.

• It’s works today now.

Thank you.

HARDWARE LEGEND:
Old HDD: Seagate ST500LT012-1DG142
New SSD: KINGSTON SV300S37/A240G SSD
HD Caddy: DBPOWER SATA 2.5" / 9.5mm 2nd Hard Disk Drive Caddy Adapter
Laptop: Acer Aspire E15 Touch (E5-571P-59QA)