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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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| 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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