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Re-use old REadyNAs HDD's
Hi, I got a 1TB drive that was in use on my old ReadyNAS Duo (RND2000 V2). Deciding that it is more useful in a PC, I've connected it internally to a newly built Windows 10 PC. But, It shows up in D...
Usually Disk Manager shows the full capacity with a few partitions. Though Windows doesn't support the file system, so they aren't mounted.
Try running vendor diags (WDC Lifeguard or Seagate Seatools for instance). If the diags pass, you can try zeroing the drive (both have destructive write-zero tests). Then look again at disk manager.
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