Laptop hddisk as external drive

[copongcopong]

I have a laptop hddisk and I put it to ECS USB 2.0 external HDD (see site below) and I have not formatted the laptop hddisk.

If I plug it in a USB port of a computer (install all drivers), would it still be listed in "MY COMPUTER" in window even if the hddisk is not yet formatted?

I tried to put the hddisk to my friends laptop and it list as 15gig on the bios. Is there a possibility that the hddisk is damage?

My problem is that it would not list in my computer in win98/2000/XP pc with old USB (USB 1.0)

(http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/peripherals.htm?submenu_id=17&function_id=14)


Thanks in advance.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

probably not. I think ti will need to be formatted before it can be recognised. (it will be recognised by the disk managment tools though)

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[copongcopong]

another thing, since it is not yet formatted, can I format it through FDISK in DOS (while on windows2k)? Would FDISK detect it?