Recent content by shogun05

I solved the issue myself by buying a Hard drive enclosure. So if anyone is looking to do this in the future, just buy a hard drive enclosure. The PCB in the enclosure is the key here as it facilitates data transfer and permissions like read and write on the disk. Peace.

"Have you attempted to disable virtual disk service?" No. Do I have to? "I'm just trying to get something, anything, written to the disk....and then delete if all later after that test." Imma try and report back. And my disk doesn't have any partitions to it. It is one complete disk of 931GB...

"I would not expect to see that format button in Diskpart. " I made a bootable usb and plugged it in. When you are on the windows installation screen, it grants you the option to format in the form of the button that I screenshot. "Looking at your pictures up near the top of the thread, it...

"Re your second paragraph above and that picture in particular: If that person who posted that pic was trying to clean install Windows on that drive, the proper move would be to DELETE all partitions with that red X and then let the installation proceed and let Windows make and format new...

"Re your first paragraph above: Were you in fact able to convert to GPT and was that confirmed by asterisks in the right column under "GPT"? " I didn't take a well good look at it so I am not sure. Is it really essential to the solution of this? Because if so, i can try putting the HDD back in...

"At that point, was the 1 TB shown with a "list disk" command and as GPT with an asterisk in the right column?" I don't think so which is why windows told me to convert it into a GPT. "You say "format" vanished? " Yes it became disabled. "Do ANY commands appear to work on that disk when it...

I made a bootable windows 10 usb and put the HDD back in and booted from the USB. I tried to format the disk through the bootable software and it said the disk has to be GPT. I opened the command prompt and converted the disk to GPT and then the format disk option vanished and then onwards it...

1 and 2. View: https://imgur.com/5iNglym and there seem to be no errors. 3. I have added a new key called, StorageDevicePolicies and added a QWORD (64-bit value) with the name, "Write Protect" and set its value to 0 Yes I have tried it with the correct disk. The correct disk is the one with...

Description of problem: So I had a WD10JPVX hard drive in my laptop. I, yesterday, switched it out a SATA SSD and decided to make use of this hard drive as an external storage.I connected a SATA connector and tried to format it but it didn't work. So I went about searching on the internet and I...