You didn't try hard enough. Portrait of a propane tank. Critique? I think I need to buy a mirrorless camera. That fixes everything.

I have no ideas. I'm not familiar with having to configure such a thing or why you're seeing this screen if you're simply trying to install Windows on this drive. The Windows installation should see the drive and install Windows on it. A Bios update on a 20 year old machine is going to be very hard to find.

There are people on UHH who are hung up on the technical side of things, and there are people who post photos to share the joy they experienced in a place or at an event. It's just poison when they cross paths. I remember someone going ballistic when another criticized a photo that they posted without asking for advice, and they left the forum. I think that sometimes those positive responses to snapshots that are posted are just to say that they share the feelings that the photos represent.

I have a little Sony camcorder HDR CX-230 that is possibly a bit newer than yours. It has an attached USB cable that is used for charging the battery. If I plug it into a computer and turn on the camcorder, the computer sees it as another drive, just like with a phone or tablet. I can find the video on the hard drive by looking around and transfer it to the computer. (In a "Stream" folder) Mine also has a card I put in it. I can see that too. Is this a possibility for you?

At least you ruled that out.

Thanks to all who enjoyed these pictures. If the little ones come around after this, I'll share photos of them.

He's trying to use this drive in a 20 year old machine. If he's using a drive that was initialized GPT, he won't get very far. I'm just asking him to check. There may be other issues as well. I don't know about all of the operating systems, but Windows 10/11 automatically initialize new drives to GPT and also during the installation of Windows.

I thought that deleting all partitions and reformatting "cleaned" the drive. It does not remove the partition style. Humor me. Connect the drive to a newer computer. In Disk Management, right click on the drive and choose properties. Then this. Do you see this? If you do, you need to change it to MBR. There is more than one method. Will this solve your problem? I don't know, but it might.

Are you putting this in a machine as a secondary drive or as the primary drive on which to install an OS? Is it new or did you take it out of a newer machine where it had been in use.

My 17 year old Dell laptop only supports drives with the MBR partition style. A drive taken out of a newer machine might have used GPT. This is how I found out. I cloned the old HDD of this computer using Macrium Reflect. (SATA to USB adaptor) The "new" drive had been taken out of another newer computer. The new drive had been initialized GPT. Reformatting the drive for the cloning did not change that. Macrium could see it, and I thought all was well. When I swapped the drives, the laptop could not see or read it. Booting gave a "No OS Found" error message. I converted the drive to MBR, cloned again, and all was well. I don't remember how I did it, but I believe you can do it from Windows installation media or on another computer that can see the drive. Google can tell you how.

Is this the problem? I don't know, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Thank you!

The little ones will be around before you know it. These turkeys hung around our house in large numbers for about a week.

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I don't know if this helps. I'm on a 2007 Dell laptop. It was the first or second year of Dell putting an SATA interface in their laptops. I have a Samsung 1TB SSD in this thing with a dual boot configuration, Windows 7, 32 bit and Windows 10, 64 bit. Surprise, it runs both just fine. I won't go into all of the reasons why I hang onto this thing. Just look at the screenshots.

I suppose we're getting off topic here, and I hope that the OP got the information they requested earlier.

One hack with punch cards was to go to the keypunch rooms late at night and empty the trays under the machines that contained the "chips" that were punched out of the cards. Once you got a large quantity, you'd get into someone's dorm room and spread them all over the place, on and in their furniture, clothing, bed etc. It would be a very difficult clean up.

I took a programming course as a freshman in college and watched as paper from a line printer was spewing out of it. Some "hacker" student had put the command to skip a page in a loop in a stack of cards. The grad student operator became livid and yelled at everyone waiting for their printouts.

The transition to time sharing and programming into terminals was taking place during my college years. You would get CPU seconds to run your programs, and you might have to ask for more if you ran out.

Watch this. What a coincidence that this popped up on my news feed. The San Francisco trains depend on floppy discs to run?????? 5 inch, no less. Unmute the video to hear the story.

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-train-system-has-been-running-on-floppy-disks-but-city-fears-catastrophic-failure-before-upgrade/14624828/

The 1000 year longevity of M-Discs only refers to the media. Everything you say is true, but to a few people, that's what matters now. Yes, we went from punch cards to paper tape to magnetic tape to big floppies to little floppies to various flavors of hard drives along the way to the current ones. We have cloud storage. Operating systems have changed. We can only know what we know now and use our best judgement. It is inevitible that new technology and protocols will come along. One thing for certain is that if you have a reader, your data on M-Discs will be intact for your lifetime. If you must know, I've only used M-Discs to archive rare movies I've come across. I don't use them to archive files. I'm comfortable with triple backing up my files with one copy offsite and my most important files in the cloud. It's a judgement call.

Just a brief story. When floppies were king, I put a lot of files on them. Most of them are of no value to me now, but when I tried to view them to decide what to keep, about half of the floppies couldn't be read. Longevity can matter.