I know this is an old post, but I thought I'd still add my 2 cents in
since I was searching online for ways to fix the same problem and
couldn't find a solution that didn't involve removing the drive from the
enclosure and installing it direct to the motherboard.

I had run into the same problem and had tried time after time to format
the drive while it was in the enclosure via usb only to get error
messages or crashes.

Finally I was able to make it work by deleting the partition in the
disk management console and then creating a new simple volume on the
disk but restricting the size of the partition to about 5 gb's (on a 320
gb hard drive). Miraculously this worked and the drive came up. After
words, I right clicked the volume and went through the "extend volume"
wizard to expand it to almost the full size of the disk.


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