Working laptop Hard Drive Fails in USB Enclosure

[rangdaa]

I was so pleased with the performance of my 80Gb Hitachi Travelstar hard drive in my laptop that when it filled up I purchased a 500GB version. I put the 500 GB drive into a USB enclosure and copied the image from the 80GB drive to the 500GB drive. I then swopped drives.

The 500GB drive worked perfectly in the laptop but the 80Gb drive was not recognised by My Computer - it was however recognised under Disk Management.

I am running W7. W7 advised that the 80 Gb drive had to be initialised but whether I selected MBR or GUID I received the same error message - Data Error - Cyclic Redundancy Check. I put the 80 Gb drive back in the laptop and it worked perfectly. However, when placed in the USB external enclosure, I got the same CRC error message.

I have formatted the 80Gb drive, deleted and created a new partiton. I have run Chkdsk, and Hitachi's Drive Fitness Tool but the drive passed both tests.

I have tried two different enclosures and three different cables but the same CRC error message persists.

The 80Gb drive was an original install in a Dell Latitude D630. Hitachi Support suggests that Dell may have installed firmware on it which would prevent it working properly.

There is no data on it but it seems a shame to waste 80Gb of space.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[rangdaa]

I ran the Maxtor Powermax program - Advanced test and the "Burn in test". The drive passed both tests.

I am tending to agree that what I need to do now is to connect it to a desktop as suggested. Unfortunately, I am "in between" homes without access to a desktop and will be so for several months. When I eventually get access to a desktop I will post the result here but it will not be for some time.

Thank you to all who have contributed.