HDD is not recognized/initialized via USB, only via SATA - is a reformat through USB a bad idea?
- by Wuschelbeutel Kartoffelhuhn
I have a 4TB Hitachi HDD that I purchased in Europe (I use it as a backup disk); I use Windows 7. When I connect it to a SATA port, it is recognized in Windows Explorer and gives no problems, even after transferring 3TB at a time or after being on for days.
When I connect it via a SATA-to-USB2.0 adapter, it is also recognized, but when I transfer…