- USB Partitioning/Formatting utility?
- Posted by DaveH on November 18th, 2004
Thanks in advance.
I have a new usb hard drive. Windows XP's disk management will not allow me
to format. Is there possibly a freeware 3rd party utility available?
Dave H.
- Posted by Gordon Darling on November 18th, 2004
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:07:42 -0600, DaveH wrote:
What size is the hard disk. Windows XP only allows 32GB FAT32 partitions.
"How can I format my USB drive as NTFS?
Go to Device Manager and set the policy of the USB Stick device to
"Optimize for Performance". The default is to optimize for Quick Removal,
which restricts you to the FAT filesystem.
If you do this, then you absolutely must go through the the annoying
removal dialog to unmount the filesystem before unplugging the drive. If
you don't, then you have a good chance of losing data."
Regards
Gordon
- Posted by DaveH on November 18th, 2004
"Gordon Darling" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Thanks for your efforts. The drive is a standard 200 gig ide drive in a usb
enclosure. XP's disk management grays out the partitioning function on this
drive. Changing to "Optimize for Performance" does not change this.
Again thanks,
Dave H.
- Posted by Horst Peiffer on November 18th, 2004
DaveH wrote:
this here
http://support.seagate.com/dweula
does wht you want, provided your BIOS and the chipset of the USB box
support ide disks >128 GB.
Hth!
Cheers,
Horst
- Posted by Gordon Darling on November 18th, 2004
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:29:56 -0600, DaveH wrote:
This might seem like a stupid question but is the disk partioned? You
ain't gonna format the disk if it doesn't have a partition table.
Regards
Gordon
- Posted by AAH on November 18th, 2004
If not there try here
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html
"Horst Peiffer" <epmhop@gmx.de> wrote in message
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DaveH wrote:
this here
http://support.seagate.com/dweula
does wht you want, provided your BIOS and the chipset of the USB box
support ide disks >128 GB.
Hth!
Cheers,
Horst
- Posted by tbobz on November 22nd, 2004
"DaveH" <xxxdaveoh@swbell.net(axe the x's)> wrote in
news:303l4vF2rn7nlU1@uni-berlin.de:
drive number and choose 'initialize'. After initialization the option to
format was no longer greyed out. Here is a link that might help.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/di...disk_mgmt.html
Yours-Tbobz
