Is it possible to take a working HD with windows and put it in a USB encasing and use it as storage in another windows machine?
I'm trying to do this now, and Disk Manager wont let me assign it a drive letter. It just sees the whole drive as being unallocated space. Do I have to make adjustments to the partition table to see the data on it?
Is it possible to take a working HD with windows and put it in a USB encasing and use it as storage in another windows machine?
I'm trying to do this now, and Disk Manager wont let me assign it a drive letter. It just sees the whole drive as being unallocated space. Do I have to make adjustments to the partition table to see the data on it?
Thanks in advance,
J
It should work, with no problems, if that enclosure has a separate power supply.
If the hard drive is not formatted, go to Computer Management/Disk Management, and initialize the hard drive, and format it.
Thanks for the reply. In the Disk Manager, the only option I have is to create a partition. I forgot to mention that my goal is to maintain all the data on the HD, so I'd prefer not to format it.
