Now I have a second drive I want to put into the new laptop but cannot get it to be recognized as anything but unallocated. I have tried formatting it but Windows says it cannot do it in the pics is what I get now get.
I just want to use it for imaging and data back up say in two partitions. So any advise is welcome.
What error message do you get when you try to initialise in Windows?
Are you able to format it in PW? If not what does it say?
Details of the drive? Manufacturer, Model Number.
The two screenshots are not from the same system. Any reason?
I did not get anything jumanji everything was greyed out the only thing I cold do was list it is DISKPART and clean all else will not do anything.
The only error message was what I got in post #1 Windows cannot format this disk.
The drive was attached to this machine in both pics which were taken by snip one after the other and I am wondering if the problem has something to do with the EUFI BIOS?
The drive is a brand new Seagate SSHD ST1000M014
Well I rebooted the machine and tried it again and it let me make a simple partition see pic - maybe it was because I was trying to see what was in some spare SSD's I had??
Good. For a moment I thought you must have got a defective hybrid drive and was about to suggest that you try format it with your live Ubuntu :)
Doesn't that new drive come preformatted?
Hmm I must admit I didn't really take that much notice of it being straight out of the sealed anti static bag it just had those diagonal lines across the partition Jumanji anyway I have done a test Macrium system image on it and it worked fine.
Thanks to you both for being so patient as it is not one of my strong points - partitioning.
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