Hi all,
I'm struggling to resolve a caddy/HDD issue which I hope somebody is able to help with with.
I bought a caddy a few months back and have only just got around to using it, it is a internal SATA caddy, and I am using a 320GB Seagate hard drive with it.
When I tried copying a folder across (About 30GB in size) using the 320GB drive in the caddy, it seems to start ok, but after a few mins it brings up an error saying that the location is no longer available, and the hard drive will no longer be listed in 'My computer'. (The drive is listed again after restarting and has all the files on it which managed to get copied across before the error. Tried this multiple times, same result)
I then tried taking the caddy out of the equation by plugging the hard drive into the motherboard directly using the same SATA cable. This time the files copied across fine, first time.
I then tried the caddy with my old 80GB Seagate hard drive. Copied the same folder across, worked fine first time. (I even tried a second folder about 12GB in size, which also worked fine).
I then went back to trying the original 320GB in the caddy, attempted to copy the same 30GB folder as before, and again it stops partway through and the drive is no longer listed.
I'm a bit stuck now because if it was the 320GB drive with the problem, I would have expected it to also fail when plugged into the motherboard. If the caddy was the problem, I would have expected it to have failed with my 80GB drive as well. It seems both my test results contradict each other.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm struggling to resolve a caddy/HDD issue which I hope somebody is able to help with with.
I bought a caddy a few months back and have only just got around to using it, it is a internal SATA caddy, and I am using a 320GB Seagate hard drive with it.
When I tried copying a folder across (About 30GB in size) using the 320GB drive in the caddy, it seems to start ok, but after a few mins it brings up an error saying that the location is no longer available, and the hard drive will no longer be listed in 'My computer'. (The drive is listed again after restarting and has all the files on it which managed to get copied across before the error. Tried this multiple times, same result)
I then tried taking the caddy out of the equation by plugging the hard drive into the motherboard directly using the same SATA cable. This time the files copied across fine, first time.
I then tried the caddy with my old 80GB Seagate hard drive. Copied the same folder across, worked fine first time. (I even tried a second folder about 12GB in size, which also worked fine).
I then went back to trying the original 320GB in the caddy, attempted to copy the same 30GB folder as before, and again it stops partway through and the drive is no longer listed.
I'm a bit stuck now because if it was the 320GB drive with the problem, I would have expected it to also fail when plugged into the motherboard. If the caddy was the problem, I would have expected it to have failed with my 80GB drive as well. It seems both my test results contradict each other.
Anyone have any ideas?