Drive Becomes GPT Protective Drive On SATA But Works Fine On USB

[racerstodeath]

I purchased 2 WD 3.0 drives maybe 2 months ago... after about 1 month, the drive had some unrecoverable sectors issues so I RMAed the drive....

New drive comes along and I used an old USB to SATA bridge that I recovered from a Seagate USB drive to connect it to the computer to transfer the data. The transfer has been completed but when I put the drive back into computer and use a SATA connection instead of the USB, the drive only shows as a "GPT Protective Partition" and won't mount.

I don't want to re-transfer all the data again so is there any way I can fix this issue without having to format the drive?

I think the problem lies in the Seagate USB to SATA bridge. Anyone have any suggestions? Any advice is appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[Cerb]

http://superuser.com/questions/6909...o-internal-now-shows-gpt-protective-partition

Try that.

I think the problem lies in the Seagate USB to SATA bridge. Anyone have any suggestions? Any advice is appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Unless you confirm the SATA to USB adapter is a plain SATA bridge, expect to need to wipe the drive when changing from internal to external or vise versa. Modern Seagates do not use 512B sectors, which breaks things.

 

[racerstodeath]

Thanks Cerb for the suggestion. I'll try to mess around with it this week and see what I happens. Thanks again.

 

[stlc8tr]

Which USB bridge are you using? I had this problem with a Plugable USB3 dock until their tech support told me to update the firmware on the dock. Once I updated, the problem went away.

http://plugable.com/2013/03/05/usb3-sata-u3-firmware-update

 

[racerstodeath]

Which USB bridge are you using? I had this problem with a Plugable USB3 dock until their tech support told me to update the firmware on the dock. Once I updated, the problem went away.

http://plugable.com/2013/03/05/usb3-sata-u3-firmware-update

I am using an USB bridge I recovered from a bad Seagate external drive... seagate expansion desktop drive to be exact...

 

[stlc8tr]

Ah, that's too bad. It's doubtful that Seagate will have a firmware update to fix this problem since they don't expect users to use it as a dock.