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Bought a 4TB internal HDD, connected, set it as GPT disk, formatted it and everything works fine. Then I removed HDD and put it in external enclosure, connected to USB and it requires formatting again. Did everything again - GPT and formatting.
After a while, I needed to move large amount of files from internal HDD and it's faster done if both drives are connected to SATA than using USB2. I removed it from external enclosure and connected to SATA - it requires formatting again. It already has files on it so I can't format it. Why it keeps doing that? Requiring formatting whenever I connected it in different way and even when I use different external enclosure? Thing is I plan to purchase USB3 enclosure for it in future, problem is, it requires formatting even when I change enclosure, when I buy new enclosure it will be decently filled up so I won't be able to use different enclosure, ever, because of this weird behavior of HDD.
OS is Windows 7 x64
Edit1: Mobo - Asus P5G41T-M LX; HDD - Toshiba MD04ACA400
Edit2: same problem when using HDD dock.
After a while, I needed to move large amount of files from internal HDD and it's faster done if both drives are connected to SATA than using USB2. I removed it from external enclosure and connected to SATA - it requires formatting again. It already has files on it so I can't format it. Why it keeps doing that? Requiring formatting whenever I connected it in different way and even when I use different external enclosure? Thing is I plan to purchase USB3 enclosure for it in future, problem is, it requires formatting even when I change enclosure, when I buy new enclosure it will be decently filled up so I won't be able to use different enclosure, ever, because of this weird behavior of HDD.
OS is Windows 7 x64
Edit1: Mobo - Asus P5G41T-M LX; HDD - Toshiba MD04ACA400
Edit2: same problem when using HDD dock.
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