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Reusing a NAS disk in a PC
I have a 4GB disk that I have removed from a ReadyNAS 104 and I would like to install into a PC. I don't seem to be able to format the disk in any way that will regain all its space, there appear to ...
I have now found the problem, it was the USB hard drive caddy that I use to transfer from one machine to another. It doesn't seem to like drives over 1.5GB in capacity and gets really confused. I have now replaced it with a new USB3 enclosure and it sees the entire capacity of the drive and NO protected windows partitions. I think the old enclosure was misreading the drives and interpreting the results incorrectly.
Thanks to everyone that replied, I got a lot of new information and a couple of useful utilities so that's a gain :)
I am using Windows 10 but I also have Windows 7 available. My intention was to use the disk in a USB enclosure to use on either a PC or a Mac. The disk works on a PC until I plug it in the Mac and then it loses half the space, it says the disk contains a protected Windows partition.
I suspect that the problem may be the USB interface itself, I have removed all the NAS partitions but there seems to be some other information that is on the drive. I have ordered a new enclosure and will try it again once I have that.
If the drive is empty, zero it out and reformat as a single partition on the Mac. Confirm the volume shows the expected capacity. Reformat on the Windows machine if you do not want to format it on the Mac with a Windows-compatible format.
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