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Boggin:
It would still be nice to get the Lenovo working though :)
Are you going to contact Lenovo ?
Missed the bit about it being bought through Amazon UK.
Here is the link for Lenovo Support UK - http://www.lenovo.com/contact/uk/en/
Xas1953NC:
Boggin, I have just looked in my stock box and found a Seagate Free Agent 500 GB USB HDD and plugged it into the laptop where it was recognized without any problems. I did six safe removal and reconnecting tests which resulted in success each time. The two internal HDDs from the defunct Acer are Western Digital Sata type and when I initially inserted them bare into a docking station they read ok on the laptop and that is why I bought the two metal enclosures to house them permanently. They are still not be recognized by the laptop but are on my wife's W7 computer so I shall keep them for that. What I want to do with the combined C drive and H Drive on one of them is to format to one partition although for now I have formatted it by Disk Management but it still shows the two partitions. I remember some 10 years back having a free program which I used on another now defunct computer that had XP on it.
Boggin:
I believe EaseUS is a popular program for managing partitions, although I have no experience of it.
http://www.partition-tool.com/
It may be worth contacting WD as this problem may have been reported to them before - I seem to remember others having complaints about WD HDDs but can't recall now what they were.
http://support.wdc.com/contact.aspx
Xas1953NC:
When I recently bought the Docking Station the specs for it said that although it accommodates both SATA and IDE drives but it could not be used to read Western Digital IDE drives. The two drives from the defunct Acer are Western Digital SATA drives and are recognised by W7 but not my W8.1 system. I shall Google and focus on this Western Digital situation.
Boggin:
I'd go straight to the horse's mouth and contact WD direct using the link from my last post.
Re, the partitions - I have two Toshiba Win 7 laptops - the older one has a 250GB HDD and the newer one a 640GB HDD.
Toshiba in their wisdom split these down the middle with C: in one partition and stick 8 or 9GB in the other and that is the Recovery partition - which I think is a waste.
Anyway, on principle rather than need I decided to remove the Recovery partition and merge that with C:
I did this by booting up with a Win 7 install disk and used the Custom install option.
When I was asked which partition I wanted to install it in, I deleted the Recovery partition, merged it then cancelled the install so it now looks like my attachment.
Because it has Win 7 installed, it will always have the small partition - is this what yours has ?
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