Hi there,
I have been installing 12 HDDs (Seagate Barracuda 2TB) into my desktop and an additional case via SATA III connections and noticed that several weren't showing up after booting.
I had been using these drives for a while without problems (about half were in their original positions, some were previously in USB 3.0 docks).
After adjusting the cabling and that making no difference, I then tested the "missing" drives in a USB dock - all but one worked. Despite being as gentle as possible I thought that the drive was somehow damaged during installation, as it was only visible in disk management (and even then it just shows 100mb and as unallocated) and I received the message "You must first initialize this disk..."
After continuing to install drives and testing different placements, more drives were not showing up. I then tested drives which had been working fine previously and they also appear to have the same corruption problems. Four out of the 12 drives now have the "Initialize" error.
I am now wondering if there is any way to save the affected drives and also what may have caused it? Might any minor impact (there was certainly no dropping and I tried to be as careful as possible) be the only culprit or could faulty power/sata cabling do this? It seemed strange that a drive was working fine one minute then seemed to be corrupted after going in the same slot as a corrupted drive.
Many thanks...
I have been installing 12 HDDs (Seagate Barracuda 2TB) into my desktop and an additional case via SATA III connections and noticed that several weren't showing up after booting.
I had been using these drives for a while without problems (about half were in their original positions, some were previously in USB 3.0 docks).
After adjusting the cabling and that making no difference, I then tested the "missing" drives in a USB dock - all but one worked. Despite being as gentle as possible I thought that the drive was somehow damaged during installation, as it was only visible in disk management (and even then it just shows 100mb and as unallocated) and I received the message "You must first initialize this disk..."
After continuing to install drives and testing different placements, more drives were not showing up. I then tested drives which had been working fine previously and they also appear to have the same corruption problems. Four out of the 12 drives now have the "Initialize" error.
I am now wondering if there is any way to save the affected drives and also what may have caused it? Might any minor impact (there was certainly no dropping and I tried to be as careful as possible) be the only culprit or could faulty power/sata cabling do this? It seemed strange that a drive was working fine one minute then seemed to be corrupted after going in the same slot as a corrupted drive.
Many thanks...
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