On 18/02/2014 13:13, Jim wrote:
On 18/02/2014 12:22, Jim wrote:
On 18/02/2014 12:13, Jim wrote:
On 17/02/2014 18:23, Flasherly wrote:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:46:28 -0500, wrote:

All I can suggest at this point, is to think carefully about
any changes made recently. Like BIOS changes just before
it could no longer mount.
Why I like "the idea" of coming off a docking station, so far as
setting up a drive. My largest DS firmware support being 2T, I've
certainly aways to go [w/out a 3T drive to my name], although being
USB, there should be a layer [of USB transpostions, i.e., from within
the station's firmware] non-specifically addressed to the MB's BIOS;-
interesting distinction how that differs from an added SATA port my
stations haven't.

Anyways, slap up that baby upside any ol' USB2/3 port, a baseline
compliancy, and the given software/OS originally used to establish the
drive's geometry [reported to the OS] theoretically should be good to
go to work.
Well i do have an IcyBox IB-RD4320STU3 so i will give that a bash
later and see if i can get any joy from that route.

Jim
OK well after putting the drive in the enclosure and booting it up in
win7 it was not showing up in windows explorer at all so i went to
disk management and it wasasking me to initialize the disk with
eityher MBR or GPT at this point i bottled it as dont want to write
anything to the drive yet, i do have my new 3TB black here right now
so i'm going to try to clone the broken 3tb onto the new one so i can
at least have a back up of it if i do something silly, I may look at
ebay and get a different kind of docking station as to be honest the
icybox i would not class as a dockling station myself.

Jim
Well thought the best thing was to put new drive inline and let
windows format it the way it wants to but oh no, went GPT route and
now it is now showing as 764.39GB, guys i'm begining to wonder if my
motherboard could be the issue here, i dont know why, sure it's an
older model Asus P5E3 Premium @ wifi
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5E3_PremiumWiFiAP_n

Anyone got a gun?

Jim
I have been thinking about this and was wondering could it be the drives
themselves? Reason i'm think this is i have bought the newer version of
the drive the AF format (WD3003FZEX instead of older WD3001FAEX drive) I
was told there was no real difference but who knows?
http://wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=760

Jim