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To: thecow who wrote (75946)6/20/2011 1:24:58 PM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (2) of 110652
 
I don't think that is it--Win7 sees one small partition,
and the much larger partition--and I did not see an
option to 'initialize', but I'll look again.

Perhaps it has been incorrectly initialized (or it was
an XP or Vista HDD (perhaps in an HP or Dell which could
account for the small recovery partition) and now it has
to be re-initialzed for this OS. Thinking out loud.

A "low level format" might be the way to go--after I
look at the drive from Linux and XP I'll probably do that.
After talking to the fellas at work this HDD may not really
have been 'refurbished'--it really ought to have been
completely reformatted and I should see all that space
unallocated and ready to use.

I'll keep that bit about initializing in mind though--
never heard of that, I suppose it is something that is
new with Vista and 7?

The last time I got a refurbished HDD, I used Easeus
partition manager on an XP machine--so things have changed
for me since I did this before. Easy to blame the hardware
but it may be a software sort of thing. And now that I
think abou it, what I also wonder about now is whether
the usb-sata bridge when using my external HDD dock
somehow interferes with all this.

So...I will slap it into a bay in my XP PC and see--
that will be a good way to check. I have this little
tool-less Dell caddy that HDDs just pop into and then
it just slides in, nice. Plug it in, activate it in bios,
no sweat (the more I type the more I remember)

Sorry for the overly long post--but it is good to think out
loud though--so long as folks on the thread don't mind too much!

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