I have taken apart a Western Digital external drive to attempt to use the 1Tb SATA drive as an internal drive. I have removed the circuit board which converted it to a USB drive, I have wiped and formatted it and connected to an internal SATA connection. It now appears in BIOS, in the Disk Management list and in my folders list. I can partition it and load folders and files. It behaves as an internal drive except when I try to install a Windows OS, I get a message that Windows cannot install to a disk that is USB or IEEE connected. Can anybody show me where the system is getting this message from, how to clear it and any other suggestions for preparing and configuring this SATA drive as a SATA drive. PC: Gigabyte board GA-890FXA-UD5 AMD Phenom IIX 965 3.4Ghz 4 Gb ram Sata ports supported by AMD SB850 South Bridge No RAID configuration.
I don't think it is possible, I have an external drive myself,but could never install an OS to it.. I just wont boot..
As I said I have extracted the SATA drive from the external drive container and removed the circuit board which converts a standard SATA drive to an external USB drive. This gives me an internal HDD which accepts files and folders but it appears to have some residual firmware or software that 'tells' the installation process that it is attached via USB or IEEE, where it is actually attached directly to a USB port.
