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    Help on Reformat of old Hitachi Internal Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by twindelphine, Aug 21, 2010.

  1. twindelphine

    twindelphine Newbie

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    I have a ThinkPad T60 custom Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 HTS542580K9SA00 with 80GB, 5400RPM. I have taken it out to replace it with the same hard drive with bigger capacity. I wanted to use it as a external hard drive by placing it in a hard drive enclosure. But when I plugged it into my computer, I cannot find any way to reformat the hard drive. The hard drive was detected, but in the Disk Management tab, I could not see the hard drive itself.

    Why can't I reformat the drive to use it as an external HDD? What should I do? Advise is greatly appreciated!
     
    twindelphine, Aug 21, 2010
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    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Do you have the old drive in a usb enclosure and you cannot format the hdd , I had a problem like that with an external hard drive and i had to connect it to my desktop machine as a slave and then delete/create partition and then format it.

    If you do not have a desktop put the old hdd back in your notebook and boot from the windows cd/dvd and use that to delete/create partition and then format it.

    EDIT : you can use the free Partition Wizard, but i dont know if it supports usb.

    http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
     
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