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cliffhucker · 04-08-2007, 08:19 PM

Hi,

I have an old hdd out of a friends old pc.

I installed it in an external hdd enclosure.

It is a 60GB drive.

I tried to reformat it to clear everything off it and it only formatted 9.71 GB

It says (right clicking "properties") that there is 53 MB used.

How can I format the whole drive to NTFS?

When I right click the drive in m"My Computer" and select "format" the only choice is for 9.76GB.

Could this have something to do with LINUX? I think he was dual booting with windows???

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

04-08-2007, 08:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
cliffhucker Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 184 OS: XP Pro-SP2	Making old HDD external storage Hi, I have an old hdd out of a friends old pc. I installed it in an external hdd enclosure. It is a 60GB drive. I tried to reformat it to clear everything off it and it only formatted 9.71 GB It says (right clicking "properties") that there is 53 MB used. How can I format the whole drive to NTFS? When I right click the drive in m"My Computer" and select "format" the only choice is for 9.76GB. Could this have something to do with LINUX? I think he was dual booting with windows??? Thanks for any help. Cheers Last edited by cliffhucker; 04-08-2007 at 08:20 PM.