Disk Management says I have a Basic NTFS volume. I managed to initialize the drive but in GPT not MBR which is what it should be.GPT only works in 64bit systems so at present it's unusable in my 32bit system. After leaving it alone for a while to refresh my addled brain I started from scratch again:
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Your comments on how to move forward from here would be greatly appreciated.I'm out of ideas! The input voltage says 5v on the HD Enclosure power socket. I've also run it from one USB port and two USB ports as suggested in the HD enclosure manua to power it. I attempted the format before the initialization which I now know is wrong. GUID is for volumes greater than 2T apparently. On my Vista Machine during the initialization process it stopped and said 'the request cannot be performed because of an I/O error'.Ĭhrome's comment that the choice should be something like NTFS not MBR for formatting is right but the choices I had was MBR or GUID.this was in the Simple Volume Wizard.strange I thought, but chose MBR. Will a USB connected external SATA drive be recognized by an XP computer.I have one and this doesn't work either.that one is a Toshiba M40 (6 years old)? The only thing left to do I can think of apart from sending them back is trying to do it on another Vista Computer. I've reassembled the HD and Enclosure to make sure they are mated properly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drive. My overall thoughts now after trying everything I know is that one of the two components is faulty but don't how to eliminate the faulty one. As of this moment I have a drive that is no longer seen in Computer Management but was before.
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Ive never done a hard drive from scratch.
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possibly expensive, learning curve for me. What I thought would be a fairly simple operation has turned into a brain-frying.