Re: how to format an external USB harddrive

Thanks Shenan. Found the UBS harddisk in Disk Management and I can format and
make partition by right click on the harddisk.

Just to let you know it is a brand new UBS external hard disk (a normal
internal harddisk that you insert into a special UBS casing).

Thanks again and have a nice day.
Shen

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> shen wrote:
> > Operating system: Windows XP
> > External hard drive: Samsung
> >
> > After plug-in the USB ext hard disk, the computer acknowleged the
> > drive but unable to see the drive letter under MY COMPUTER,
> > therefore, I am unable to format the ext. USB hard drive.
>
> Use Disk Manager...
>
> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage ->
> Disk Management
>
> Also - if you want the disk to be more compatible with other systems...
> Format it FAT32 - and assuming it is larger than 32GB, you will need to use
> a special tool (Windows XP will not do it natively) to format it larger than
> 32GB.
>
> Format larger than 32GB FAT32 within Windows XP with this utility:
> http://www.mager.org/mkdosfs/
>
> --
> <- Shenan ->
> --
> The information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research for
> yourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately
> responsible for your actions/problems/solutions. Know what you are
> getting into before you jump in with both feet.
>
>
>
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