First of all, thank you for reading all this.

I have a 1 TB Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD that was previously installed in a Netgear NAS. I was fairly certain that something in the NAS let go because when I attempted to boot, the fan would come on and you could hear the HDD spinning but the LEDs would never illuminuate. Fair enough, it was kind of a POS anyway.

I ordered a new Western Digital NAS but have a ton of media (all porn) on the 1 TB Seagate from the old NAS that needs to go onto the new NAS. I ordered a 3.5" USB to SATA adapter for the job.

The interesting part is that my new adapter can read every old SATA drive I have (all 350 GB or less), 3.5 or 2.5, but it absolutely refuses to recognize the 1 TB. The other drives come up as the G: drive- not sure about that idiosyncrasy as F: is next in line but that's what happens.

In the device manager you can see the 1 TB enter and exit the disk drives as "TO External USB 3.0 Device" and USB controllers as "USB mass storage device" as you power up and down the adapter, but it never enters as a disk drive.

The adapter did not come with software- instead it is one of these driver included outfits where the drivers install when you plug the USB cable in.

So what are my options here? Is there some kind of conflict with this drive only? Is the adapter not able to handle a 1 TB drive for some reason?