[access-uk] Re: formatting an external drive?
- From: "martin wilsher" <m.wilsher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:42:54 +0100
HI Damon:
I've just done this very thing! I have a three hundred gig external hd, and
yes, just reformat by using the normal windows formatting commands.
I did the following.
went into windows explorer, found the external drive but did not open it up,
just highlighted it. went to the file menu, arrowed down to format, and then
followed the usual procedures for formatting the drive. very easy to do.
btw, if you know the disc is sound you might want to quick format it, or if
you think it has been damaged, you might want to do a full format, which
checks for damaged sectors.
hth.
Hope to hear from you soon.
From Martin.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Damon" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: [access-uk] formatting an external drive?
: Hi,
:
: I've got a 200 gig external hard drive.
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: Something weird has happened to it and I think the best solution is to
: reformat it.
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: How do you reformat an external drive? And, if i do reformat it say using
: windows built-in tools, will My Computer immediately recognise it again
when
: I next hook it up to the USB port?
:
: Currently when I plug it into the USB it does a beep beep found new
hardware
: routine and it automatically shows up as a new drive in My Computer.
:
: Any help or thoughtts appreciated.
:
: ...Damon
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