Hello everyone,
My old Western Digital My Book World 1TB NAS hard drive (blue circles) failed. Thankfully I was able to retrieve the data using the Linux reader software in Windows (connecting the drive to the motherboard of a computer with Windows XP).
Consequently, I have purchased an external enclosure from My Book Essential USB 3.0 drive on eBay and installed that 1TB drive in it. The drive is visible in Windows 8 or XP, but is not accessible, nor can it be initialized to be reformatted.
I tried to use Western Digital Data Lifeguard software and erase the drive with zeros, but access was denied, too.
How do I format that drive, which (presumably) has a Linux server software on it...?
TIA
My old Western Digital My Book World 1TB NAS hard drive (blue circles) failed. Thankfully I was able to retrieve the data using the Linux reader software in Windows (connecting the drive to the motherboard of a computer with Windows XP).
Consequently, I have purchased an external enclosure from My Book Essential USB 3.0 drive on eBay and installed that 1TB drive in it. The drive is visible in Windows 8 or XP, but is not accessible, nor can it be initialized to be reformatted.
I tried to use Western Digital Data Lifeguard software and erase the drive with zeros, but access was denied, too.
How do I format that drive, which (presumably) has a Linux server software on it...?
TIA