I made my old laptop drive into a portable one

[Arkitech]

My laptop died but I was able to get a new one under my extended warranty. Since I got to keep the old drive I bought a drive enclosure and turned it into a portable one. So now I'm trying to delete stuff like the windows, program files and system folders but I'm unable to get rid of the files. I keep getting access denied errors. Is there a way around this?

 

[Jexx]

Best bet is to just to format the disk or if needed repartition the disk then format it.

 

[Arkitech]

Yeah I was thinking I may have to go that route, although I'm hoping I can find a work around

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Jexx
Best bet is to just to format the disk or if needed repartition the disk then format it.

Agreed. I don't know why you wouldn't have done that in the first place.

Originally posted by: Arkitech
Yeah I was thinking I may have to go that route, although I'm hoping I can find a work around

Edit - Why? Formatting is easier and faster.

- M4H

 

[Chris1122]

I would just format the drive.

Go to my computer and right click. Select format.

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Jexx
Best bet is to just to format the disk or if needed repartition the disk then format it.

Agreed. I don't know why you wouldn't have done that in the first place.

Originally posted by: Arkitech
Yeah I was thinking I may have to go that route, although I'm hoping I can find a work around

Edit - Why? Formatting is easier and faster.

- M4H

I have data tbat I don't want to lose but I guess I'll have to back it up

 

[Zepper]

You can get an adapter to hook a 2.5" notebook drive to a standard controller from places like http://www.geeks.com . Then it would be fairly easy to backup and then wipe the drive using the Drive Fitness Test disk from Hitachi or similar.

.bh.