External HDD problem... broken?

Oh, as of your reaction to it not being a GoFlex and asking if I could format I thought it perhaps an actual option, I just don't know how to do it ^^ So I'd like to visit that option first if it's doable before removing the enclosure
 
I forgot you mentioned everything is greyed out on the disk management when you right click the drive, so you can't format it by the looks of it
 
Ah ok, so removing from enclosure last step for sure? Then I just hook it up like a normal HDD? I'd have two HDD's then if so, no idea how to set that up
 
Yep, if you don't have any spare SATA cables (should have got loads with your mobo) then unplug your non-OS HDD and use the cables from that.

If you're struggling with enclosure removal guides google usually has loads. A quick search turned up this video which is the same name/looks like your enclosure. The process should be entirely reversable.
 
Ok, thanks. As my current HDD is actually old and beginning to perform slowly (not talking about the external one here), I'd actually replace my current HDD with this external (made internal) HDD entirely, is that a possibility? Obviously given a format and Windows 7 installation.

I'm also looking at purchasing an SSD (this one to be exact;http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-162-SA&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=2394), would I be able to run those in a setup like using the SSD for boot-up/games I'm playing at the time with easy access to the external (made internal) HDD for storing random crap & recording with FRAPS to? Will make another thread if necessary as gone a little off-topic here :)
 
All that is absolutely fine. Depending on what state the HDD (from your external) is in then pulling the data off it and formatting would be a few mins work and it will behave in exactly the same way as any other internal.

As for the SSD the Samsung's seem to be the pick of the day currently, everything i've read over the last few days (before ordering my own) says they're amazing for reliability and performance.

Recording fraps would need more than the SSD's worth of capacity so I would definitely say keep a storage drive handy unless you're doing extremely short videos but other than that everything you've said should be fine.
 
Ah, regarding the recording sorry I wasn't clear there, I'd be wanting to play the game I'm recording on the SSD, but be frapsing to a storage drive as from what I've read and experienced it's hard on performance to technically fraps the game you're recording if it's installed on the same HDD as fraps it's self is, so that was my idea behind that

One thing I just noticed is that I'm unsure of the sata cable situation. I'll be running the SSD in sata2 as my pc doesn't support sata 3 (still buying the sata3 backwards compatible to sata 2 ssd for the future) and whilst I do have a spare sata cable here in my hands I have no idea if it's a sata 1 or sata 2 cable, and if sata 2 cables even exist, thus if this one would do the job for the sata2 connection just fine, information I found was confusing on this :p the spare cable I have here just has this written across it "LinkTek AWM E301571 STYLE 21149 30V 80C VW-1 Serial ATA 26 AWG" just want to know if that's the *wrong* cable so I order the correct one with the ssd if so, sata 2 cable that is not going to use sata 3 at the moment.
 
Yeah, I understood that, I was merely pointing out that while you could skip the storage drive entirely it would restrict the amount of recording you could do quite heavily.

SATA standards are fully backwards compatible, you won't get the bandwith of SATA III but it won't cause any problems with your drive at all. Cables are completely indifferent to SATA standards, there's no such thing as a SATA II/III cable.

Enjoy your new drives!
 
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