What to do with this drive?

[voyagerfan99]

I acquired a 2.5" 40GB SATA HDD. My friend I guess pulled it from his PS3 or something. Well it says "Not suitable for laptop computer use" so IDK what the hell I'm supposed to do with it.

Any ideas?

 

[louism92]

if he did pull it from a ps3 then your computer will not recognise it, the way i got it to work is by installing an operating sytem on it, once you do this it will be formated to a file system that the computer can recognise, im not sure if theres another way to get use out of it but im sure there is

 

[The_Other_One]

I'm thinking with the Xbox the drive is locked somehow and can't be accessed without mucking around with special software and such. I assume the PS3 would be much the same. There might be some way of unlocking it and making it usable for your typical PC, but I honestly wouldn't know where to start looking...

 

[linkin]

plug it in to your pc and use G-Parted live or something and format it to NTFS, best bet at getting it work for a laptop IMO

 

[tremmor]

throw in the trash and call a day. 40 gig don't mean much. they are cheap enough. what i would do is give it away.. if ya can.

 

[ganzey]

you could water cool it. that would be pretty cool

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