i dismantled the case and used an external sata to usb but this makes the drive to be powered on again and it appears to have GPT and a partition of 16TB and the drive name changes to the external sata name so this is very odd. the reading head also works as normal and the drive also goes into sleep after a while. the drive doesn't make any weird noises it sound all very normal an quite like a drive should be. after doing a surface test it seems my first sectors are bad but all the others are fine. essentialy the drive is a brick with some data. i was thinking to chkdsk or fixmbr but i can't assign a drive letter nor the GUID is given. ![]() then when i plug the usb into another computer it doesn't even power on anymore. when i try to initialized the drive it tells me access denied even as admin and using the build in admin account also does nothing. it doesn't show in diskpart when i do list disk but when i select disk 2 he selects the disk but it has no volume or partition. and it tells me the F: drive can't be found on the device.then in disk mngr it shows unallocated, drive letter is gone, and it's not initialized. Then suddenly the drive doesn't appear anymore. ![]() ![]() backup i stored some recent important files on there because i couldn't access my cloud storage at that moment. So i have this 5Tb drive for about half a year now an i have been using it from time to time when storing data and using it as a.
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