Not sure if my case is similar to
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2064774/3tb-book-internal-drive.html?xtor=EREC-8889
but I thought I'd double check.
Recently I'm 99% certain my WD 3TB My Book (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136749) has the SATA-USB bridge inside going dead. I've replaced both the USB cable and power cable with brand new cable, and it'd show up as ATA/ATAPI USB device randomly on windows from time to time the past week. Luckily the last time windows actually recognized it as a drive I was able to back up all my files from that drive. I did check the integrity of the drive and the SMART status is healthy, leading me to think the drive itself is still OK. Based on what I've read it seems as if the SATA-USB is the most likely problem.
In any case I really don't care about finding a new SATA-USB PCB at this point to prolong it as external drive and just want to take the drive out (its way past warranty) and plug it into my computer as an extra internal drive for my desktop. I understand that WD has encryption on it, which means it won't read my current data, which is fine. But before I take it out and plug it into my mobo, I just want to make sure that once I connect it, I should be able to go into Disk Management in Windows 10 and initialize the hard drive, and repartition it as "new" hard drive with 2.72 TB space. I'm not missing anything that the encryption will bar me from using it as an internal will it? I've gotten all my files off from the My Book.
Here are my desktop specs:
Windows 10 Pro
AMD Phenom II X4 955
M4A785TD-V EVO BIOS 2105
12 GB DDR3
2x1GB seagate HDDs in software RAID/mirroring
Thanks in advance!
Sorry if this is a repeat, if there is a RTFM thread that you know of that has the answer to my exact question, please kindly redirect!
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2064774/3tb-book-internal-drive.html?xtor=EREC-8889
but I thought I'd double check.
Recently I'm 99% certain my WD 3TB My Book (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136749) has the SATA-USB bridge inside going dead. I've replaced both the USB cable and power cable with brand new cable, and it'd show up as ATA/ATAPI USB device randomly on windows from time to time the past week. Luckily the last time windows actually recognized it as a drive I was able to back up all my files from that drive. I did check the integrity of the drive and the SMART status is healthy, leading me to think the drive itself is still OK. Based on what I've read it seems as if the SATA-USB is the most likely problem.
In any case I really don't care about finding a new SATA-USB PCB at this point to prolong it as external drive and just want to take the drive out (its way past warranty) and plug it into my computer as an extra internal drive for my desktop. I understand that WD has encryption on it, which means it won't read my current data, which is fine. But before I take it out and plug it into my mobo, I just want to make sure that once I connect it, I should be able to go into Disk Management in Windows 10 and initialize the hard drive, and repartition it as "new" hard drive with 2.72 TB space. I'm not missing anything that the encryption will bar me from using it as an internal will it? I've gotten all my files off from the My Book.
Here are my desktop specs:
Windows 10 Pro
AMD Phenom II X4 955
M4A785TD-V EVO BIOS 2105
12 GB DDR3
2x1GB seagate HDDs in software RAID/mirroring
Thanks in advance!
Sorry if this is a repeat, if there is a RTFM thread that you know of that has the answer to my exact question, please kindly redirect!
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