Recent content by ArcyMe

Hmmmm!!! Brilliant, now let me start looking to see if I can find any of that!! Thanks, RC

You have a lot of patience! It's just the one HD that I have... I was referring to it as the non working HD that is now in my Windows laptop just sitting mocking me with It's "I don't have anything to boot up with attitude" as the other HD. I know that I keep making thing confusing, but in my...

This seems to be a case on "Who's on first" if you are old enough to know the reference. Here is the situation, I have 3 laptops, 2 windows based & 1 Mac. One of the Windows laptops has been dead for a number of years. I decided to take the HD out and see if I could use it like a flash drive...

Ok, SORRY!! Total novice here. I took my working laptop apart (nervous) and put the HD in question in the laptop and turned it on and it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press key. Not really sure what that would be? Hope that is what...

I used the USB enclosure with the HD to remove the files and wipe the HD, so I know it works. No, the HD does not show up anywhere when I plug it in now. I don't know if in the erase process there were supposed to be drivers or something left intact? I just don't know...maybe it's a complete...

Thank you for your response. I believe there is no longer anything on the drive. I would be happy to set it up to use in the windows environment. I just thought rather than sitting in the closet for years unused, I could at least use the HD. The old laptop would no longer boot up no matter what...

I removed a 500 GB Hitachi SATA HD from an old laptop to convert to an external USB storage device. After copying the items I wanted to save onto my computer I began to erase the HD on my MacBook. It began the process and then nothing happened for a LONG time, over an hour! I stopped the process...