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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. |
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Re: Making old HDD external storage
Is the drive partitioned? If so you will need to go into Disk Management and remove the partitions.
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Re: Making old HDD external storage
Yep there were partitions and I deleted them.
Ok, now there is just one partition but it is only 38.27GB according to diskmgmt.msc. However under properties in "my computer" it says: Free space 38.2 GB Used space 65.6 And the used space is just a sliver in the pie chart. Is this linux hiding it or something??? Is there a command prompt that would get it? Thanks |
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Hello there
Instead of using windows disk management, use Gparted Live CD. Here is one guide of using Gparted for you: http://sroyc.blogspot.com/2006/12/gp...credit-of.html
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Re: Making old HDD external storage
Hi,
src2206 has posted a good link (but, I think the guide is written for Linux envionment). You could try Partition Logic. It's a free program that will let you get rid of any Linux partitions - but the program is not capable of NTSF formatting, you have to do that in Disk management. Perhaps the easiest solution is the one suggested by JohnthePilot - enter Disk Management in Windows. You do that by right-clicking My computer > manage > Disk management. In disk management you choose the partitions to delete (all?). Then you right-click the drive (in Disk management) and choose "New partition" and follow the wizard. Nicholas Last edited by Deleted090308; 04-08-2007 at 10:07 PM. |
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Re: Making old HDD external storage
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thanks for the partition logic leed. I will use that then reformat to NTFS. I hope. thanks again. chyeers |
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Re: Making old HDD external storage
no worries,
I appreciate your replies and suggestions. I am not desperate enough to use boot discs . I tried partition logic but got stuck at the post prompt.And the "manual" at the site was very lacking. I would really like to find that hidden partition and delete from windows. I also tried the Ultimate boot disk and it only recognized the drive as 40 GB? Anyways thanks again and sorry for being harsh. Cheers Last edited by cliffhucker; 04-08-2007 at 11:25 PM. |
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Re: Making old HDD external storage
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