Windows 10: Old hard drive seen when connected to Windows 10 Laptops but not seen when connected to...

I replaced the 1 Tb Dynamic hard drive Made by Microsoft in my laptop with a solid state drive and used the replaced drive to make an external drive with USB connection using a commercially available container. This drive is not accessible on my PC.


I can see the drive on my 2 Windows 10 laptops but not on my Windows 10 desk top PC.


I tried formatting and wiping to remove all data on the disk. Even then the problem continues.


On the laptops also I can access both the basic partition and the partition named 'Recovery' but cannot merge them.


I cannot delete the partitions in the 'Recovery' drive using windows Disk Management.


How can I convert the full drive into one Basic Drive usable everywhere?


Thanks and Regards


Anand Gumaste

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External Hard Drive not seen when connecting by eSata to USB 3 cable

I have a 1TB external hard drive (Medion HDDrive 2 GO) from 2010 that came with a Medion PC from Aldi which my family still use. It is equiped with an eSata connection and a USB2 connection. Both these work fine on the old Medion PC running Windows 10 Home 32bit. The eSata connection is much faster speed and I have a eSata to USB3 adaptor cable which works fine on the Medion PC.
I want to use this external drive of a newer PC that only has USB 2 and 3 connections. It works fine plugged into both USB2 and USB3 with the standard USB to USB cable.
But plugging the eSata to USB3 cable in nothing happens.
I have tried to see if I can get a driver from Medion but the unit is not listed on their web site.
Also have tried to see if I can get a driver on the internet and did install one that looked hopeful but did not help.
Attached are images of the showing the drivers in use on the Medion PC (Windows 10 Home 32 bit) when connected by USB to USB cable and eSata to USB cable.
Also attached is image of driver in use on newer PC (Windows 10 Pro 64 bit) when connected by USB to USB cable.

Older Medion PC says when connected with eSata to USB cable that External Hard Drive is a ASMT 2115 USB device - disk drive (driver Microsoft 10.0.14393.0 21/06/2006)
and when connected by USB to USB cable as Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 USB drive (driver Microsoft 10.0.14393.0 21/06/2006).

On newer PC (Win 10 Pro 64 bit) when connected by USB to USB cable it says Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 USB drive (driver Microsoft 10.0.14393.1613 21/06/2006).

Any suggestions on how to get the eSata to USB3 cable connection for this externasl hard drive to work on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit PC?
Would it be possible to copy some how driver from older PC to new PC?

Many thanks for any advice.

 

External Hard Drive not seen when connecting by eSata to USB 3 cable

Hi Chillbast2017.

Try this:

Connect your External Hard Drive eSata to USB3 to new pc.
Open Computer Management, then Disk Management and at the bottom search for your 1 TB external hard drive, if you can see it there, right click mouse on it, then click on Change Drive Letter and Paths, click on Add, choose Assign the Following Drive Letter, choose the letter on your right and click ok. Close Computer Management. See if it worked. I had the same problem with an old HD on Windows 10 x64, windows didn't recognize the hard drive connected with eSata cable to USB 2 or 3, and this did the trick.

Cheers

 

External Hard Drive not seen when connecting by eSata to USB 3 cable

Hi
Although when connecting the external hard drive to new computer (Windows 10 Pro 64 bit) by eSata to USB3 cable in to USB3 socket the computer makes an audible bleep, nothing shows in disc management for this.

When drive is connected by USB to USB cable (USB2) the drive is seen and opened and automatically allocated as drive G and is visible in disc management as such and labelled as HDDRIVE2GO (G.

Really puzzled as to why same does not happen when connecting using the eSata to USB3 cable (as it works perfectly on old computer running Windows 10 home 32 bit.

As this external hard drive is a fully enclosed drive with separate power supply I am not certain how an eSata expansion card would help me.
Thanks
Steve