“Just wondering why this drive shows up as JMicron as the manufacture instead of WD in the windows drive properties? Purchased this brand new here online, factory sealed, but makes me wonder if it is a reconditioned drive. This is a 1TB black. Thanks.”

Asked by olemil 7 years ago

1-5 of 5 Answers

JMicron is a manufacturer of external hdd enclosure electronics. you are seeing the usb device not the hdd. Most USB ports do not provide enough power for the full size 3.5" hard drive so it will never initialize
Answered by ThomasFi 7 years ago
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Mine showed up with WD in the name. That would make me wonder if it was reconditioned as well. I would question Best Buy about it.
Answered by OldKid 6 years ago
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Never mind. I guess it was the usb drive dock that was causing it to show up that way. After installing in the puter it does show it as a WD drive. Acronis clone didn't work so pretty much a waste anyways. LOL
Answered by olemil 7 years ago
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That's because the JMicron chipset on your motherboard is reporting itself instead of the drive. I have a motherboard with a JMicron IDE chip that does the same thing.
Answered by Reziac 2 years ago
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You may be looking at the hard drive controller "JMicron" on the drive.
Answered by hotlynx16 6 years ago
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