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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 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 :)
Ya, I know some of them HDD docks had size limitations. 1.5 Gig's seems a little small, but good to know you figured it out. When I built my Windows PC, The case I got for it actually has a built in Bare drive dock on the top of the case I can slide a drive into. Works great. But I do have 2-3 bare drive HDD docks around here also. I know back when I was looking to buy one, some had limitations in the size of the HDD you could use with it. Glad you figured it out. Sometimes you just have to start ruling things out one by one until it works and then you found was was causing the issue. So it's SOLVED!!!
JBDragon1 wrote:
I know back when I was looking to buy one, some had limitations in the size of the HDD you could use with it.
I also ran into this some years ago when getting a SATA->USB adapter.
This should only effect USB-2 tech (since GPT was well established by the time USB-3 hit the marketplace).
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