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rmt38

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#198752 21-Jul-2016 11:48
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I bought a harddrive and got someone to copy some files onto it for me, but after the drive arrived and I mounted it in an external desktop drive case to connect to my laptop via USB, it is inaccessible  The drive is found via USB 3 on the laptop, and recognised, but not mounted as a drive letter.  In Disk Management it appears as a drive with one GPT protective partition of around 7500GB in size.  Disk management offers no options whatsoever, they're all greyed out.

 

  • My laptop is Windows 10.
  • The tower case it was mounted in and the files copied on was Windows 10
  • The drive is a Seagate 8TB archive HDD 3.5" SATA 5600RPM 128M.
  • The external desktop drive case is a "Seagate expansion desktop drive" with an existing 4TB drive inside it.

Does anyone know why the partition is inaccessible and what to do about it?

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rmt38

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  #1596380 21-Jul-2016 16:06
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I forgot to add that this is the solution I went with:

 

ORICO 6518US3-V1 USB 3.0 Hard Disk Drive Enclosure Case  -  US PLUG  BLACK

 

$26NZ, free shipping.  That's cheaper than the dated solutions available elsewhere.  Looking on Newegg description, it says "supports 3.5-inch SATA drives up to 8TB" which is pretty definitive, and as there's only one slot, it can't mean between the two slots as some enclosure descriptions state.

 

Even if it doesn't work for 8TB, it's a cheap upgrade from the dismantled WD and Seagate sealed units that I bought in the past from various countries.  

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