To start this is a 250gb wd scorpio blue model WD2500BEVT. I recently pulled this from a laptop i got from a friend. the laptop did not have a charger or have any juice left so i just dismantled it for parts. To format this hdd i thought i would just directly hook it through a SATA port on my desktop. However when i did this my desktop slowed to a crawl and would not boot several times. After about 3 attempts i enabled the hotswap feature in my bios, and booted normally without it attached. After i attached it 4 partions pulled up and required formatting. When i attempted to do so a message came up saying the drive is read only. After this i tried through disk management to be given a similar message. I feel like i missing a simple step to format this drive, but could someone help me figure this out?