On 27/08/2019 13:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 27/08/2019 12:45, Iain wrote:
I'm trying to read some old SATA drives using a Liteon Ultra enclosure.
windows disk management (Win10 Pro)sees the disk but says it needs to
be initialised, but trying to initialise as MBR fails.
Any ideas as to how to procede?
TIA Iain

Boot a live linux CD and use better tools


You are the second person to mention CD, are you sure he should boot off
a floppy.

Why don't people use USB sticks? I haven't had a CD for a decade.