Hi!
I have a few 2GB WD hard drives that I occasionally connect to my PC via one of two USB caddies.
I'm finding that some drives work fine in 'Caddy 1' but I get the "This drive needs to be formatted" message when placing the same hard drive into 'Caddy 2'.
Conversely, some disks are fine in 'Caddy 2' but 'Caddy 1' refuses to read them.
Some drives work in both caddies.
I've a feeling that the problem hard drives are only working in the caddy in which they were originally initialised, despite me following an identical initialisation procedure for every hard drive?
Does anybody know how I can get both caddies to read what are definitely healthy hard drives, please?
Hoping the explanation of my problem makes sense.
I have a few 2GB WD hard drives that I occasionally connect to my PC via one of two USB caddies.
I'm finding that some drives work fine in 'Caddy 1' but I get the "This drive needs to be formatted" message when placing the same hard drive into 'Caddy 2'.
Conversely, some disks are fine in 'Caddy 2' but 'Caddy 1' refuses to read them.
Some drives work in both caddies.
I've a feeling that the problem hard drives are only working in the caddy in which they were originally initialised, despite me following an identical initialisation procedure for every hard drive?
Does anybody know how I can get both caddies to read what are definitely healthy hard drives, please?
Hoping the explanation of my problem makes sense.
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