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Old 02-06-2007, 05:44 PM
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how format USB drive?

I have a USB external hard drive for back up. It was formatted by a Linux
server and nw when I plug it into my USB on my Windows XP PC it wont see the
drive. It recoginzes there is a HD there but it doesnt show up at all as
external storage in the drive list.

How do I go about formatting the external drive via USB?

thanks for any tip!


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Old 02-06-2007, 05:44 PM
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Re: how format USB drive?

jtsnow wrote:
> I have a USB external hard drive for back up. It was formatted by a Linux
> server and nw when I plug it into my USB on my Windows XP PC it wont see the
> drive. It recoginzes there is a HD there but it doesnt show up at all as
> external storage in the drive list.
>
> How do I go about formatting the external drive via USB?
>
> thanks for any tip!
>
>

Assuming you have Win XP,NT or 2000
Go to control panel / Administrative tools / Disk Management and format
it from there.

Or get DOS usb drivers and use FDISK.
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Re: how format USB drive?

jtsnow wrote:
> I have a USB external hard drive for back up. It was formatted by a Linux
> server and nw when I plug it into my USB on my Windows XP PC it wont see the
> drive. It recoginzes there is a HD there but it doesnt show up at all as
> external storage in the drive list.
>
> How do I go about formatting the external drive via USB?
>
> thanks for any tip!
>
>

Assuming you have Win XP,NT or 2000
Go to control panel / Administrative tools / Disk Management and format
it from there.

Or get DOS usb drivers and use FDISK.
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Re: how format USB drive?

jtsnow wrote:
> I have a USB external hard drive for back up. It was formatted by a Linux
> server and nw when I plug it into my USB on my Windows XP PC it wont see the
> drive. It recoginzes there is a HD there but it doesnt show up at all as
> external storage in the drive list.
>
> How do I go about formatting the external drive via USB?
>
> thanks for any tip!
>
>

Assuming you have Win XP,NT or 2000
Go to control panel / Administrative tools / Disk Management and format
it from there.

Or get DOS usb drivers and use FDISK.
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