Windows Drive in USB Enclosure

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  1. DrQuality

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    Hello,

    Is it possible to take a working HD with windows and put it in a USB encasing and use it as storage in another windows machine?

    I'm trying to do this now, and Disk Manager wont let me assign it a drive letter. It just sees the whole drive as being unallocated space. Do I have to make adjustments to the partition table to see the data on it?

    Thanks in advance,
    J
     
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    It should work, with no problems, if that enclosure has a separate power supply.

    If the hard drive is not formatted, go to Computer Management/Disk Management, and initialize the hard drive, and format it.
     
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    Thanks for the reply. In the Disk Manager, the only option I have is to create a partition. I forgot to mention that my goal is to maintain all the data on the HD, so I'd prefer not to format it.

    Thanks,
    J
     
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