Windows 10: I have 2 Western Digital 1TB HDD's That Won't Mount

I have external cables to hook up the hard drive and the hard drive won't mount, it gives an error. It shows the drive but when I try to assign a letter it gives me the error "We couldn't change the drive letter. Error code: 0x80070057. When I try to format it says FORMATTING - FAILED. ERROR: CANNOT PERFORM THE REQUESTED OPERATION WHEN THE DRIVE IS READ ONLY 8, and when I try the delete it says THERE WAS AN ERROR DURING THE DELETION OF THE VOLUME. ERROR CODE 0x80070032.This has happened on both the drives both when I tried to hook it up to 2 different desktops running Windows 11 and once wit

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Alternative to Western Digital 1TB CH SN530 M.2

Hi! I am looking for alternatives to the SSD Western Digital 1TB CH SN530 M.2 (image below). SSD size must be the same. Any advice is welcome. IM Windows 10 Pro

 

Western Digital External HD won't mount

On windows you could always try uninstalling the device in windows device manager and then unplug it, and plug it back in to see if re-installing the device driver will fix it.

The nice thing is that its a western digital HDD and western digital so happens to have software on their website to help you diagnose problems with their drives yourself. Download the Data Lifeguard software from their website, its the software for diagnosing problems. They also have other useful software for their drives as well.

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Apparent conflict between M.2 Crucial SSD and Western Digital HDD in BIOS

Just purchased an M.2 Crucial P5 Plus 2 TB SSD. Installed into MB slot and restarted PC. Met with black screen that said something about connect a proper boot device and reboot. Rebooted to look at boot sequence in bios and noticed the new SSD is listed but my SATA Western Digital WD 1001 FALS HDD is not listed in the hardware. Only UEFI Hard Drive. Chooseing the UEFI hard drive as first boot did not work. Removed the SDD drive and rebooted. This time my WD HDD showed up as a possible boot device. Set that as 1st boot, restarted and Windows loaded just as before. Every time I install the SSD, I lose the option of setting my existing WD HDD as a boot device.