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| Re: can't format my external hard drive 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. -- inspectorjimb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ inspectorjimb's Profile: [url]http://forums.techarena.in/members/144968.htm[/url] View this thread: [url]http://forums.techarena.in/vista-hardware-devices/1035891.htm[/url] [url]http://forums.techarena.in[/url] |
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