ATI not working at all, unlike the old WD edition I had which worked perfectly
So, I HAD a WD Black edition drive, 500gig. Then recently purchased a 1TB WD Ultrastar drive, which it turns out is actually a Hitachi drive. Copying drive to drive using my old ATI WD edition software worked perfectly as it always has. The software when doing a drive to drive copy always rebooted my PC, and the copy took place in that DOS mode or whatever it is before Windows restarts. Now I'm running the WD Ultrastar as my drive. I also purchased a Seagate 1TB to use as a backup. But when I went to do the usual drive to drive copy, ATI WD edition doesn't recognise the Ultrastar as a WD drive. SO, I tried using Seagate Disk wizard. SDW saw the Seagate, and attempted to clone it, but it never rebooted my PC and instead tried to do the clone while Windows was running. The SDW said clone was complete, but upon shutting down, removing the Ultrastar and running only the Seagate, I got an error message 'A disk read error occurred' and the Seagate would not boot. SO, I decided I needed to purchase the full version of ATI? And did. Then I attempted to mirror the Hitachi to the Seagate backup drive again. The Seagate worked perfectly prior to attempting to use it as a new backup. Bios sees the Seagate, I can see it when I run Speccy, and I can see it in Device Manager. I'm running Win7 btw. No matter what I do using ATI 2020, either setting up the Seagate as a new drive, or cloning, the drive is not visable in Windows7 and the clone, as with the old SDW software, does not work upon rebooting, I get the same error message 'A disk read error occurred'. As with SDW, the new ATI2020 does not reboot my PC during the clone process, and instead tried to clone within Windows7, which clone process says it has worked, but in fact it fails every time. Anyone have a clue to what is going wrong for me? I'm regretting purchasing a non-WD drive now, and regretting purchasing the full version of ATI. The old ATI WD edition was great.


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