- Aug 10, 2015
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Hi All,
I recently bought a WD Elements 3 TB external drive. I bought the WD Elements mainly because it doesn't have the "Self-Encryption feature", so I wouldn't have to worry about the USB-SATA board failure.
Anyways, when I first connected the drive via USB , it had a single 3 TB. I wanted to convert this this into 2 partitions. So I deleted the single partition, and initialized GPT and created 2 partitions - 100 GB and the rest of the drive. I then copied some movies to the 2nd partition.
At this point I checked and found Load Cycle Counter was increasing rapidly (30 within the first few minutes), since I was aware of the intellipark issue so I extracted the internal HDD in the case to increase idle time for Head parking to 300s.
Now I wanted to be sure that the internal drive would work fine without the USB-SATA chip. So I booted into windows, and now I get the windows message saying both drives are not formatted.
I tried the same thing in reverse - Reinitialize the drive when connected directly connected via SATA, copy some data, again connect to the drive via the USB interface - same results.
Can anyone let me know how to make the drive work seamlessly whether I am using an USB interface or the direct SATA interface ?
I recently bought a WD Elements 3 TB external drive. I bought the WD Elements mainly because it doesn't have the "Self-Encryption feature", so I wouldn't have to worry about the USB-SATA board failure.
Anyways, when I first connected the drive via USB , it had a single 3 TB. I wanted to convert this this into 2 partitions. So I deleted the single partition, and initialized GPT and created 2 partitions - 100 GB and the rest of the drive. I then copied some movies to the 2nd partition.
At this point I checked and found Load Cycle Counter was increasing rapidly (30 within the first few minutes), since I was aware of the intellipark issue so I extracted the internal HDD in the case to increase idle time for Head parking to 300s.
Now I wanted to be sure that the internal drive would work fine without the USB-SATA chip. So I booted into windows, and now I get the windows message saying both drives are not formatted.
I tried the same thing in reverse - Reinitialize the drive when connected directly connected via SATA, copy some data, again connect to the drive via the USB interface - same results.
Can anyone let me know how to make the drive work seamlessly whether I am using an USB interface or the direct SATA interface ?
Unfortunately, extracting the internal HDD from its enclosure voids the warranty on the drive as you can see from the Warranty policy on our website here: 
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