jag Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 I have a couple of hard drives from previous systems that I'd like to use as slave or USB drives. Vista doesn't recognize them, and they crash the system when I use them as a USB drive. I don't know if it matters, but they have embedded recovery code from the old system. These HDDs were partitioned from the manufacturer so that C: is the data partition and D: was the recovery partition. When using it with Vista, I've tried, cable select mode as well as slave only mode. When using it as USB drive in an enclosure, it shuts the system down as soon as the systems boots up. I don't need the data on the disks. Any solutions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocha Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 I have a couple of hard drives from previous systems that I'd like to use as slave or USB drives. Vista doesn't recognize them, and they crash the system when I use them as a USB drive. I don't know if it matters, but they have embedded recovery code from the old system. These HDDs were partitioned from the manufacturer so that C: is the data partition and D: was the recovery partition. When using it with Vista, I've tried, cable select mode as well as slave only mode. When using it as USB drive in an enclosure, it shuts the system down as soon as the systems boots up. I don't need the data on the disks. Any solutions?Have you tired reformatting both hard drives? it sounds like you just took them out of the old system and tired to put them in your vista machine. If so, it sounds like your bios is trying to boot off your old hard drives from the last system. This will not work because the old hard drive is still up with an OS and is trying to boot off of your old hardware that is not in the new computer. Try a new format for those two new/old hard drives in your new computer. You should be able to read and write to your old hard drives with new data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 As you are connecting the drive by USB, try booting your machine first and only then connecting the old drives ready to format them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jag Posted July 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 I don't know how to format this drive. It has a protected sector. The only way I know how to format is to right click on the icon and select format. Is there another way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 I gave a method earlier today in http://www.windowsforum.org/forums/index.p...c=32076&hl=Failing that, if you know the drive manufacturer, look on their web site for the "Low Level" formatting software for the brand and use that. It should remove all data and put the drive back to its factory condition.Failing that, there are other low level formatting programs available which you can find via Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashoverride Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 if you don't need teh data why not just wipe it out and reload it???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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