How do I hook up an old hard drive using enclosure to my laptop?
February 26, 2010 - 8:25 pm
The drive came from an old desktop and is an IDE (wide grey connector). I have a rocketfish hard drive enclosure.
I was hoping to reformat the drive by connecting it to my laptop then connect it to my desktop as an extra drive.
It’s connected to my laptop using the usb and the hard drive enclosure. Should it show up as a removable drive? How do I reformat it?
yes, it should shows up as a removable drive, you format it by right click on it and choose format.
why don’t you install it a secondary drive on you Desktop then format it?
after installing it, Right click on my computer > select manage> select Disk Management, make sure you are at the correct HDD and format it
again make sure you are at the correct HDD, you have been warned
February 27th, 2010 at 2:07 am
yes, it should shows up as a removable drive, you format it by right click on it and choose format.
why don’t you install it a secondary drive on you Desktop then format it?
after installing it, Right click on my computer > select manage> select Disk Management, make sure you are at the correct HDD and format it
again make sure you are at the correct HDD, you have been warned
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