I have purchased a new 1 TB WD HDD (internal) and have connected it internally in my PC to my motherboard using the spare power and SATA cables within my PC. (This is the second internal disk ) I booted on the PC (windows 7 (64 bit)) - the new HDD was detected and i continued to format the disk using quick format option with NTFS (allocation cluster size 4096 bytes). I have not made partitions on this and therefore this is essentialy one large 1 TB partition. I then loaded all the data that i wished to back up from the 3 partitions of my older existing 500 GB disk as the purpose of acquiring the new 1 TB was exactly this. Till now all is fine. 3 days later i wished to transfer some of backed up data files (on my new unpartitioned but formatted new 1 TB disk) to my Toshiba laptop (Win 7 64 bit). So i discconnect the new 1TB disk from the PC and attach it using a USB 2.0 TO SATA/IDE cable to the usb port of my Toshiba laptop. The disk is detected but a message pops up saying that the disk is unformatted and the disk management tool in Windows shows this as a basic disk (RAW). In case you'd like to know what cable i am referring to - here it is http://the-gadgeteer.com/2006/03/22/brando_usb_2_0_to_sata_ide_cable/ PS: I have tried formating the disk via the USB cable (as requested by my laptop message) but then when i attach it back as an internal disk in my PC it (the PC) detects it as an unformatted RAW disk (the vice versa problem) and requests me to format the same! What i want to know is how to make this HDD usable both as an internal disk drive as well an externally connected USB drive? What i am doing wrong? PS: Many years ago i have done the same without any problem with an IDE HDD PPS: I have done the same exercise using win XP PC but i get the same problem Is it a bios setting, OS issue, partition table issue or what May i please request help on this perplexing issue? Thanks folks
Buy an enclosure, place the desired HDD their, and now you have an external HDD. Format and try to use in both systems.
