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Windows not recognizing previously format ReadyNas drive
I have a set of 3 HGST 3T drives used with ReadyNas. These are now recognized in windows 10. Does anyone know about a fix for this? It is the driver within wins 10. Thanks
Trying to translate... you have 3 drives in your readynas that you've removed from the NAS and now have attached them to your PC running Windows 10?
If so, boot into BIOS/EFI and ensure that they are recognized there (and that the ports they are plugged into are enabled.) When you boot into Windows, are the drives seen in device manager? If so, run the "disk management" tool within Windows, and see if the drives are seen there. If so, do they show as uninitialized? (If yes, then initialize them from that tool.) If initialized, you can use the same tool to partition and format the drives.
If the drives are recognized by windows, but you can't read the data from them, then this isn't a problem - the NAS internally uses a different format that Windows can't natively use. They'd have to be erased/reformatted.
garyd9 wrote:
If so, run the "disk management" tool within Windows, and see if the drives are seen there.
I suggest doing this first. The disks will likely show up there. You'll need to write-click on every "volume" that windows disk manager shows for each drive, and delete it. When all are deleted, you'll be able to create a windows volume.
The bios doesn't see the drive I have attached. I even tried it with the settings.
Wins 10 detected when the drive was attached via USB. I was prompted to initial the drive. It failed to intialize with both MBR and GPT. The error was "Virtual Disk Manager, the device is not ready."
Thoughts?
Thanks
Does your USB adapter support large drives? Some older USB 2 adapters don't.
How old is the PC?
I was able to find the USB 3 adaptor to connect. I was able to delete a couple of volumes. However, i still can't format it. The error is still the same as before. I can't take it online or offline like was able connecting vis USB2. I tried to cmd dispart it is showing status = no media.
???
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