Robert in CA wrote:
I put the 1Tb hd back in the 8500 and put the #3hd in the
external case and tried to connect it but same as before.
I checked disk management also

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I logged into my account to access disk management

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and then also followed your instructions but it's not there.

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and its not connecting for some strange reason. It's like the
backspace key. It should work and everything else works but
it doesn't. It's very odd.

Robert

ASMT2105

Mine gives slightly different responses.

USB2/USB3 - no drive == no response on USB bus
USB2 - drive present == partitions mount
USB3 - drive present (OS appears to have no USB3 driver, as it's Win7)

I am unable to reproduce your No Media.

It suggests the drive is present. On mine,
the blinky LED for drive activity, is fully lit
while the drive is not responding. No blinks
to off state, to indicate recovery for the
last line in the table above.

But if the driver says "No media", I don't see how
any utility will be able to access it (like, data
recovery tools). There has to be a row in Disk Management,
for physical access to begin, no matter how corrupt the
partitions are.

I think it's making contact.

I think it's spinning.

But I'm at a loss as to why it says No Media, when if
it lacked a driver, it would be unlikely to get far
enough to put the Notification on the screen.

If you feed the drive into the Macrium Repair process,
there should be enough I/O there to prove it works as
a drive.

I would think, the USB3 hub and Mass Storage Class driver,
they'd be presented by means of the driver for the onboard
chip for USB3.

Also, you would think Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) would
have a yellow mark, if the ASM2105 was not being
recognized properly on the USB3 port.

At least one person had a corrupted partition, when the
ASMT2015 reported "No Media". But I think you've had
some positive response from the drive, and when you put
it in the machine and Boot Repair it, that would prove the
media is fine.

Maybe Device Manager will give us a hint.

Paul