Robert in CA wrote:
Power switched on ?
Drive properly seated in enclosure ?
Do you hear any "sound effects" coming from the enclosure ?
Check in Device Manager, for a new entry.
Even if the MBR does not contain a valid
signature, the "item" should still show up
in Disk Management (so that a valid MBR can
be assigned to it, as an option).
On a decent computer, the popup boot menu
could have an entry with the Disk Name
showing up, as proof it's there. On
some, the USB setup page in the BIOS,
will list connected/alive devices.
Paul
I re-seated the HD and tried again and this time
it worked. I followed your instructions and
everything was going along OK until it jumped from
image 5 of your instructions to image 10, so I
cancelled it.
https://postimg.cc/LnY2fjQ1
https://postimg.cc/v1zsMhTp
https://postimg.cc/NK8h7D65
https://postimg.cc/php17JFQ
https://postimg.cc/344n9rsn
Why did it do that? So now what do I do?
Try it again ?
Thanks,
Robert
In the first picture, it says "Select a disk to clone to"
You were supposed to click the gray "GPT" item just below it,
as it's the only disk available as a target at the moment.
What should have happened, is in the second picture, the
GPT "layout" should be replaced by the layout of the
source disk above it. Click "Next" then "Back" to verify.
I simulated what happened to you here, and it looks
like the disk shipped with a 0xEE protective partition declaration
in the MBR, yet no other partitions defined on the disk.
I was able to make a disk do that here, using PTEDIT32
to capture a partition entry for it, "clean" my fake
disk, then apply it, and I could make your gray disk thingie.
https://i.postimg.cc/fb6NhB5w/cloning-puzzle.gif
And Macrium seems to be able to override that just fine.
For people who want to make their own scary gray disk,
this is the pattern you want to apply with PTEDIT32.exe .
Declare MSDOS partitioning first in Disk Management
(to get the signature in bytes 510 and 511), then
use PTEDIT32 to define a single partition entry like this.
This gives a gray disk which is "almost useless" :-/
What was Seagate thinking ?
https://i.postimg.cc/1t9LS2w1/ptedit...e-gpt-disk.gif
Paul