WD1600JS-62MHB5- Not recognised by PC.

[markhig2]

Hi,
I have recently purchased 2 hard drives model number WD1600JS-62MHB5.Both of these drives have been removed from Sagem IHD 91 pvr boxes.

When plugging these drives into an external usb caddy my pc recognises them but then wont let me do anything with the drive ie format, read or write data to them.

Having done a google search it seems that people are having the exact same issues with drives they have removed from the same sagem pvr.

Is it possible that the pvr is changing the firmware? If so then how can i get these drives back to factory firmware so that they are useable hard drives. I have a test system that i have used to test the drives but the message i receive is "drive is not locked", but the system can see all the drive details.

Does anyone have any ideas of where i can go from here?

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Mark

[BlackST]

Use MHDD to see if disks are locked or not. Otherwise the drives have internal problems and there's nothing you can do with end-user equipment.