3. Use the included USB cable to attach the enclosure to your PC or laptop.
4. Depending on what's on the disk, it may show up in Windows File Explorer and be ready to use. Because our disk was from a Windows laptop, it was formatted as NTFS and was assigned a drive letter automatically.
You can treat it like any hard drive, copying files to it, or formatting it. If you plan only to use it with Windows, you can leave it formatted as NTFS, but it's best to use exFAT if you want to connect it to other devices such as set-top boxes for video playback.
What you might not want is for the drive to show up as two disks, as ours did due to a 100MB system partition from the old Windows installation.
We'll deal with this in the next step, which also applies if your disk doesn't appear when you connect it.
5. If it doesn't show up in Windows Explorer, search the Start menu for Disk Management and then look for a disk with unallocated space, or a disk without a drive letter assigned. You can then right-click on it and format it.
If, like us, you need to remove an unwanted 'System Reserved' partition, just right-click on it and choose Delete Volume. It will then be unallocated space, and since it's only 100MB, we will just leave it unused