11-25-2007, 12:59 PM
I acquired a 1.8in 20g hard-drive from work. It is originally the internal memory from an Eclipse DVD/Navigation unit which lost its disc drive and was mutilated by one of my co-workers to get a disc out. He tossed the HDD in the trash...and I was quick to retrieve it. It is a Hitachi Travelstar. I got a USB2.0 case for it off ebay, got it all together and hooked up. Vista recognizes it in device manager, but when I go to disk management I get an error when I try to initialize the disc. I can get it to show up on my XP machine in device manager, but it won't show in disk utility. Any ideas? Is it possible it has some file system on it that windows can't understand? Both machines see it as the correct model number as a "USB mass storage device." Is there anything I can do to manually format it and clear it out so I can initialize the disc in windows?
Jeff Morrison - Used Car Manager
Woodstock Garage, Inc.
Chrysler - Dodge - Jeep - RAM
Current Stable of Mopar Junk
57 Chrysler Windsor 4drHT - 67 Dodge D100 Short Bed Step Side - 71 Dodge Challenger - 91 Chrysler Lebaron LX 33k mile Survivor - 91 Dodge Dakota V8 - 05 Chrysler Crossfire Roadster - 08 Ram 2500 Cummins
Woodstock Garage, Inc.
Chrysler - Dodge - Jeep - RAM
Current Stable of Mopar Junk
57 Chrysler Windsor 4drHT - 67 Dodge D100 Short Bed Step Side - 71 Dodge Challenger - 91 Chrysler Lebaron LX 33k mile Survivor - 91 Dodge Dakota V8 - 05 Chrysler Crossfire Roadster - 08 Ram 2500 Cummins