Windows 10: why have ALL my external WD hard drives 2tb, 4tb, 5tb been failing on my under one year old...

why would ALL my external WD hard drives 2tb, 4tb, 5tb have been failing on my under one year old Windows 11 laptop since September 2022.Same with my partner's even newer Windows 11 Laptop and 2-3 of her external WD hard drives? It was bad at first. They could appear intermittently, and then show up as unknown, offline and not initialized.Some would appear in Disk and Device Management but not in File Explorer. Some wouldn't show up at all. But most are now permanently not working.All the suggested fixeds are making no difference:- Changing cables, ports and laptops- Drivers are up to dat

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Windows not recognizing WD 5TB hard drive

i replaced a WD 500 GB hard drive with a 5TB WD Black using system image in Windows 10 on a Lenovo M91P.

disk management "sees" the additional space but I'm unable to access it. In other words, they system is behaving as if the old hard drive is still there. I simply want to expand the C drive to use all the available space. Thanks.

 

Please suggest Best 4TB NAS External Hard Disk

Hi Guys,

Please suggest Best 4TB NAS External Hard Disk.

There are only two WD or Segate

What I want:-

1.USB 3.0
2.LAN port
3.Torrent client
4.DLNA streaming

Please suggest if you have any experiences

Thanks.

 

New 4TB Hard Drive Read As 1.6TB

The 4TB drive only shows 1.6TB, there always are two reasons for that:

1.The 4TB hard drive has been initialized to a wrong partition table. If you find a formatted hard drive not showing full capacity, which is mainly because you format the
4TB hard drive to MBR partition table. As we all know, MBR partition table cannot address to the space that exceeds 2TB. As a result, to use a full capacity of a hard drive that is larger than 2TB, you need to initialize it to GPT partition table
via
an MBR to GPT converter.

2.The 4TB external hard drive does not connect correctly. Some portable hard drive and USB hard drive are designed to connect a PC via a USB port. If you install the USB hard drive to your computer, the hard drive capacity detecting may
become an issue. An accepted explanation is the controller board of USB hard drive breaks the 2TB limitation, yet Windows internal device controller does not. Therefore, you need to additional hardware to make the installed USB/portable hard drive showing
full capacity. In that case, all you need to do is connecting the 4TB USB hard drive via USB port.