Re: Reformatting a HD

PT wrote:

It's a blank back up external. I followed the instructions below. Thanks.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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PT wrote:

If it's a secondary drive and not the one with Windows on it, just
right-click on it in My Cpomputer and choose format; specify NTFS as
the file system.

If there's data on it you want to keep, convert it instead of
reformatting. To convert to NTFS, you use the CONVERT command. But
first read http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm because there's an
issue regarding cluster size that isn't obvious.


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