I just bought a new 4TB hard drive and put it in a caddy, but Windows isn't recognizing it. The caddy was working fine until yesterday and I've only used it a couple of times, most recently with another hard drive for a friend. The caddy is powered on, and I've tried connecting it to different USB ports on my Gigabyte Aorus Wifi 7 Elite B850 motherboard. I really need this drive to recover some data from another drive. I'm running Windows 11 Pro.
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So, if your drive isn't showing up at all in Disk Management, you might want to try removing it from the enclosure and connecting it directly as a SATA or M.2 drive. This could give you better insight into whether the drive itself is an issue.
I can’t do that since my PC is already full with other drives. I need to recover data from another one too, but I think my case is maxed out with 3 SSDs and a 3.5" HDD connected.