re-using old discs for pc installation

Are they recognized if you put them back in the NV? If so try a factory default then power down, remove disks and see if they then work in the PC.

emillika wrote:
Is there something I need to do to my 4 seagate Barracuda 7200.11's in order to re-use them in my pc after retirement from a ReadyNAS NV? My bios doesn't recognize them in my Dell XPS 8300. Have tried multiple SATA ports on the motherboard and so far no luck. Thanks.

Normally they won't show up in Windows until you delete the partitions and reformat them. Look in control panel\computer management and click on "disk management" See if the disks show up (with no drive letter).

emillika wrote:
My bios doesn't recognize them in my Dell XPS 8300. Have tried multiple SATA ports on the motherboard and so far no luck.

That is very odd indeed. If you don't have another computer to try them in, you might try a SATA-to-USB converter.

The bios should recognize them no matter how they are formatted, make sure the sata ports you are connecting them to are enabled in the bios it may have a setting which you can change from auto manual or ( not installed or disabled ) if its set to not installed or disabled the bios will not try to detect anything on that port.

HERBIEO wrote:
The bios should recognize them no matter how they are formatted, make sure the sata ports you are connecting them to are enabled in the bios it may have a setting which you can change from auto manual or ( not installed or disabled ) if its set to not installed or disabled the bios will not try to detect anything on that port.

I agree that the bios should see them. Though I wasn't completely sure if the original poster had actually used the bios menus, or if he was expecting Windows to show them. It's easy enough to boot up and look via Windows Computer Management.