[Albert Lionheart]

Any ideas on this anyone?
A SATA 2.5" drive has a corrupted OS on it and I want to format it and then reinstall a fresh copy of Windows.
The drive is detected by the BIOS but does not show up as an available drive in the install routine (no drives found). I
If I remove the drive and connect it as a SATA drive to a desktop (so I can format it that way), it again shows up on the BIOS but is not available as a drive in Windows Explorer.
This drive has been pre-repaired by PCWorld - I wonder if they did anything odd to it?

[Spleenharvester]

Does it show up at all in diskmgmt?

Only thing I can think of is trying to see if DBAN detects it and writing zeroes to it. There again, it is PCWorld we're talking here!

[Albert Lionheart]

Wotcha!
I plugged the drive into a desktop and used the windows disk management tool to remove the partition put there by PC (spit) World. God only knows what they used but that cleared it and I was able to replace the OS as usual.
Thanks for the reply!

[Spleenharvester]

Ah nice one. PCworld up to their usual then