On 10/31/2016 01:31 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 10/31/2016 01:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> In certain cases isn't there a way to format a drive using the GPT
> option? (I believe it's in "Disks") and then you select the drive in
> question.....then go to the upper right hand corner and select the
> "Format Disk" choice. When it opens you're looking to partition the
> drive using the GPT selection and not the MBR-DOS option. This might
> allow the entire drive to be seen. Granted it also might take a LONG
> TIME to format!...after all its 3TB in size..Hope that helps.
The problem with this drive doesn't appear to have anything to do with
its capacity or its partition table. The logs appear to indicate that
it isn't spinning up.
And as I said, if the USB cable has two USB A connectors for the
computer, connect the one with the thicker cable to a USB3 port (that
one is usually both data and power and the connector is blue in color)
and make sure the one with a thinner cable is also connected to a USB
port (USB 1.1 or 2--it's used just for supplemental power).
Often a single USB port can't supply adequate power to spin up the
drive, so they use power from both USB connections to make it work. One
may need a powered USB hub to provide adequate power. A pain, but
usually not expensive.
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