Hi,
I've been using my SATA to USB adapter successfully in the past years with several hard drives. But I'm having problems with a large 1 TB WD mobile hard-drive (WDC WD10JPVT).
Formatting the drive using the motherboard SATA connectors, results in the drive showing up as RAW when using the adapter (RAW 931 GB partition).
Formatting the drive with the adapter, results in the drive showing as RAW when connecting it to the motherboard (a 116.44 GB RAW partition, 815.07 GB of unallocated space).
When I format the drive using the motherboard SATA connectors and issue an
fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo command, here is what I get:
Code:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x3e8280bc828079e3
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x00000000747057ff
Total Clusters : 0x000000000e8e0aff
Free Clusters : 0x000000000e8d9829
Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Now here is the output after formatting with the adapter:
Code:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x524ee9ec4ee9c935
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x000000000e8e0aff
Total Clusters : 0x000000000e8e0aff
Free Clusters : 0x000000000e8d9769
Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Physical Sector : <Not Supported>
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 4096
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 1
Now would anyone be able to give a technical explanation to this? I'd just like to understand. Is my SATA to USB adapter crappy, or is it a limitation of all SATA to USB adapters in general? Is it because the hard drive is large? A new SATA feature not supported by the adapter?
Thanks!