IDE hard drive into a portable speaker access problem.

I got your desktop who died (power is not a replacement value).  I removed the two hard drives (IDE) and bought pens for use as portable hard drives.  I have not had any problems at all with the 'second' hard disk that I had originally put in place as a backup of data - music, photos, etc.  The problem I have is trying to access the old 'C' drive like a laptop.  I was hoping I could at least reformat and use it as additional storage.  I tried every possible rider but still cannot access this drive from my Vista laptop or my desktop XP.  The disc spins and it is "kind of recognized" by the host computer, but when I try to right click on it in "my computer" everything freezes.  I can still access it through the BACK.  I guess it has something to do with the fact that there is an operating system on the drive, but I was hoping that I could at least go enough to wipe.  Another strange thing is that when it is displayed in 'My computer' it appears as two disks-(that is to say E, F, or similar)

I could solve this problem.  Using disk management, I was able to reformat the drive, leaving a small 4 GB EISA partition, which I was able to remove by using DISKPART.  In retrospect, it is more work that it was worth for a small car, but I now have a 120 GB drive laptop that I can use for storage of photos or other.

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