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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 :)
The old caddy I was using was probably only USB1, it was very old. I used to use a pair of hotswappable caddies that would take SATA drives, they were mounted in the DVD drive bays. Even though they were supposedly hot swappable the system never saw them as normal drives, it always treated them as removables. When I rebuilt my PC this year there was no room for drives so they went and I now have to use USB devices instead.
To be on the safe side I went through a couple of old drives that had been used on the NAS and plugged them directly into the PC motherboard and cleaned them with diskpart and then formatted them fresh. That seems to do it.
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