Hi I have just purchased a 60 gig 2.5" IDE hdd from ebay , I have put it into my external caddy that I use to keep downloaded films on , it is showing in my computer , I have tried to format it , but it say's it can not format , this is in xp , when I try it on another PC with Windows 7 it shows up in Computer and it says within the box ,” System Reserved” . Has anyone got any idea as to what that means , I have tried to go FILE FORMAT , but it says it can not do . I am still waiting for a reply from the ebay member that sold it to me . Cheers spike
Try to check it for errors, bad sectors. Maybe it still a chance... but sometimes when a HDD can't formatted is not a good sign.
