External Hard Drives

[Mark]

That could account for USB but not eSATA. An unformatted hard disk connected via eSATA should still show up in the BIOS, and in Windows.

Originally Posted by Wossi

Forgot how long it takes to format a 1TB disk

That's what the 'Quick Format' option is for.

Some of the bigger retail external drives actually malfunction if you don't select that option. Never had that happen with a caddy though (but it could).