Need to rreformat hard drive.

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While reloading WinXP in Sony laptop, I succeeded in plugging up the
HD to the extent that all I get is an error message that leads to an
infinite number of reboots. I would like to pull the HD from the Sony
and figure out a way for my main PC to clean it and reformat it, but I
have no way of knowing how to power it up once it is removed. I have
available various USB cables and an external HD and and external CD
burner. I have a portable floppy (USB) drive, but unfortunately, the
Sony's BIOS does not accept the instruction to boot from it.

Any ideas?

 

[Arno Wagner]

While reloading WinXP in Sony laptop, I succeeded in plugging up the
HD to the extent that all I get is an error message that leads to an
infinite number of reboots. I would like to pull the HD from the Sony
and figure out a way for my main PC to clean it and reformat it, but I
have no way of knowing how to power it up once it is removed.

You mean the laptop or the hdd? For the HDD, you need a 2.5" to
3.5" HDD adapter (it it is ATA), and just a normal SATA data and
power cable for SATA.

I have
available various USB cables and an external HD and and external CD
burner. I have a portable floppy (USB) drive, but unfortunately, the
Sony's BIOS does not accept the instruction to boot from it.

Why do you want to boot the laptop without disk anyways?

Arno

 

[Stretch]

While reloading WinXP in Sony laptop,

I succeeded in plugging up the HD

Well, there's your problem. You shouldn't have done that.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Arno Wagner wrote in news:[email protected]

You mean the laptop or the hdd? For the HDD, you need a 2.5" to
3.5" HDD adapter (it it is ATA), and just a normal SATA data and
power cable for SATA.

Ooh, that made a lot of sense.

Why do you want to boot the laptop without disk anyways?

That too.