I got an Acer Aspire 3 laptop for my parents for $300 and decided to replace the 1tb drive in it with an SSD. That was a task on its own--I used a USB-to-SATA adapter and EaseUS to clone the system drive to the SSD. The new drive wouldn't be recognized as a bootable device until I cloned all partitions to the SSD and booted into Windows via USB. But when I swapped it with the 1tb SATA it wouldn't boot into Windows until I did a fresh install of Windows onto the SSD via a bootable USB.
But now I can't get the old 1tb system drive to initialize on any other computer. Not via USB or SATA. It worked as the system drive when I plugged it back in to the SATA port on the original computer. But now I've run Erase Disk via bootable USB on it. That was a 3 hour process that says it was successful, but it still won't initialize! It is recognized by all computers I plug it into but gives an I/O error when I try to initialize. Diskpart couldn't do it either! Any ideas?
But now I can't get the old 1tb system drive to initialize on any other computer. Not via USB or SATA. It worked as the system drive when I plugged it back in to the SATA port on the original computer. But now I've run Erase Disk via bootable USB on it. That was a 3 hour process that says it was successful, but it still won't initialize! It is recognized by all computers I plug it into but gives an I/O error when I try to initialize. Diskpart couldn't do it either! Any ideas?
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