Sideburnious 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2006 Ok, so long story short: I bought a SATA Hitachi Deckstar hard drive back in september. I'm trying to use it as external and I have an external sata-usb case. The only problem is that I can't seem to get the pc to pick up the hard drive. Its not coming up in administrative tools and only the case is being detected. I think what I need to do is format the hard drive inside a pc first, but my desktop pc doesn't have sata wires inside it. Is there anyway to format it without putting it inside it? I'm sure there is someone on here who has a good idea what to do. Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2006 I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "external sata-usb case". Is the computer a custom build? Or did you buy a PCI multi-adapter card that includes an external SATA hookup? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sideburnious 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2006 no, basically I got a external case for the hard drive, so that it pretty much makes the hard drive a portable external one. The wires inside the case are sata wires to connect to the hard drive, and the wire that connects it to the pc is a usb wire. Heres pretty much a similar model to it: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
