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?
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?