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AlexanderCJones
(First, I backed up all of the folders on both hard drives of my old Windows 7 machine to several USB Flash Drives.)
I took the second hard drive out of my old Windows 7 desktop, and installed and hooked it up in my new Windows 10 Desktop. I went to "Disk Management" where I am prompted to initialize the disk (see figure 1). So I do, and then I just get a pop-up saying: "The Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". (figure 2)
I looked this up, and there are a number of sites indicating that a solution involves downloading something to fix it, but whenever I go to download whatever fixer is offered, I get a warning from security software, indicating that the site is disreputable.
I removed the second hard drive from my new Windows 10 machine, and put it back into my old Windows 7 machine, and it it worked fine. I then moved it back in to my new Windows 10 machine, and for a few hours, it worked fine. It even had the same drive letter as it did on the old windows 7 machine. Then, it stopped working and again it is the same with the same errors.
There really is no way that the cables can be hooked up incorrectly, is there?
This additional hard drive is 500GB. If buying a new one would fix the issue, I can do that, since I can restore all of the data from the USB flash drive. But if the drive is not the issue, I would hate to buy a new drive to have the same issue, especially if something else will make it work.
I tried updating the driver, but it says that the latest drivers are all installed.
The drive is a 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS - 00A7B2
What needs to be done to make this work?
(Figure 1.)
(figure 2)
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I took the second hard drive out of my old Windows 7 desktop, and installed and hooked it up in my new Windows 10 Desktop. I went to "Disk Management" where I am prompted to initialize the disk (see figure 1). So I do, and then I just get a pop-up saying: "The Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". (figure 2)
I looked this up, and there are a number of sites indicating that a solution involves downloading something to fix it, but whenever I go to download whatever fixer is offered, I get a warning from security software, indicating that the site is disreputable.
I removed the second hard drive from my new Windows 10 machine, and put it back into my old Windows 7 machine, and it it worked fine. I then moved it back in to my new Windows 10 machine, and for a few hours, it worked fine. It even had the same drive letter as it did on the old windows 7 machine. Then, it stopped working and again it is the same with the same errors.
There really is no way that the cables can be hooked up incorrectly, is there?
This additional hard drive is 500GB. If buying a new one would fix the issue, I can do that, since I can restore all of the data from the USB flash drive. But if the drive is not the issue, I would hate to buy a new drive to have the same issue, especially if something else will make it work.
I tried updating the driver, but it says that the latest drivers are all installed.
The drive is a 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS - 00A7B2
What needs to be done to make this work?
(Figure 1.)
(figure 2)
Continue reading...