Well see what happened with me is that my drive did not come with a partition 2. According to what I read, it's an easy way to cut corners, that resellers hack these drives, and sell them for profit. So it had the partition 0 and the partition 3, but no 2. However, the firmware on it was all...
Neverminds, i'm dumb!
so after scratching my head for HOURS i realized my stupid mistake, HDDHackr takes the WD drive and puts hitachi firmware on it! so my eBay drive is just fine there, all it needs is to be partitioned correctly. That much i can handle. Thanks all! :D
I have a few questions myself
well my problem is that the drive i bought on eBay (bad idea, i know. didn't know at the time). Appearantly it's a hacked drive from china, and doesn't have the partition 2 for backwards compatibility. B/C was all i wanted it for, so I'm a little irritated :@. I...