Can I reformat an external hard drive volume?

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• I can't reformat the external hard drive, Buffalo Technology.

  Original title: Buffalo Technology DriveStation JustStore 1 TB external hard drive

  I have an external drive that I had everything stored on and thought that he would never crash. but he did. I tried all the software out there to retrieve the data, and I know now that it is gone forever. I want to use it again (and make sure I save it constantly), but I'm unable to reformat the hard drive.

  I looked online and tried all different types of software to format the hard drive, but I have not been successful. My PC can see it, but I'm unable to format it.

  Any help on this would be highly appreciated.

  Hello

  Here are a few questions for clarity on the issue:

  1. what operating system is installed on the computer?

  2 have you tried to format the drive in Windows Explorer?

  3. what happens when you try to format the drive using different software?

  Let us try the following and see if you can format the external hard drive:

   

  Important note: Run the format, you clear the external hard disk.

  Method 1: Format the drive in Windows Explorer.

  See the following steps:

  (a) click Start, click computer

  (b) right click on the drive and click format

  (c) follow the on-screen instructions for formatting.

  Method 2: Format the drive in disk management.

  See the following article:

  Create and format a hard disk partition:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition

   

  If the methods above do not contribute or if you have a question, please answer, to help you further.

• I changed from a PC to a MAC and have reformatted my external hard drive with my photos.  Originally LR pointing the reader as reader J but now I can not use a letter.  Y at - it anyway to solve this problem.  My catalogue works fine?

  I changed from a PC to a MAC and have reformatted my external hard drive with my photos.  Originally LR pointing the reader as reader J but now I can not use a letter.  Y at - it anyway to solve this problem.  My catalogue works fine?

  In the library, go to the folders Panel, right-click on each folder of upper level and "updated to the folder location".

• HP Pavilion dv7 - 3188cl: can I use an external hard drive with my laptop computer?

  Hello

  Can I use an external hard drive from 1 to 2 to my laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

  Hi @ptr1959w!

  Yes, you can use an external hard drive on your laptop - just connect via one of the USB ports on your machine, partition and format it in disk management, and you should be ready to go. Here is an article with the steps you can follow to do this:

  http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?ID=ou7o9Q

  Hope this helps, and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

  See you soon!

• Can not Backup on external hard drive, get error 0 x 810000006

  can not backup on external hard drive

  Close running programs as much as possible. Turn off or unplug the external drive. Market back or plug, wait a few minutes and try again.

  Tom Ferguson

• I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office.

  share external hard drive

  I am able to access my desktop to my laptop as part of a homegroup, but can not access the external hard drive that is attached to my office. I want to be able to back up my laptop hard disk external.  Advice please.

  geraintjo

  I do not use homegroups, but 'true' to share, so I don't know how this is supposed to work with homegroups. But usually he should share a drive or folder, first before you can access it from another machine. (for example, click on the drive/folder properties and go to the sharing tab)

• can I use an external hard drive to increase the disk space and memory on xp?

  I am considering an external hard drive of 1 TB to trasmet all files on the computer. There is little hard drive space and memory left. Can I use the external hard drive free space and can it will be installed via USB and use my operating system?

  You can use the external hard drive to transfer your data from your internal hard drive.  Cannot move system files (such as Program Files, Windows and swap files) well.  Looks like your use of the word 'memory' made reference to disk space - it normally refers to which an external drive would not affect RAM.  If you mean disk space, however, you can certainly free SPAC drive this way.

  I hope this helps.  Good luck.

• I can't find my external hard drive under 'Computer' but it appears in "Devices and printers" How can I access files on my external hard drive?

  I can't find my external hard drive in "computer".

  I just bougth a new HP computer running Windows 7.  I just copied a bunch of movie files, music and photo of my old Mac (OSX Leopard) on a Western Digital external hard drive.

  I plugged the external drive in my HP via USB 2.0 on the front of the computer.  Windows recognizes the drive.  She appears in the Panel of external control/hardware and Sound/devices and printers as "HARD disk".

  It does not appear in 'Computer' under 'devices with removable storage ".

  I just want to get to my files so I can copy them to my new computer.  How to access my files on the external hard drive?  Why isn't he appear in 'computer '?

  Hello ShamedMonkey,

  Thank you for your message.  The problem you are having is because of differences in formatting between PC and Mac.  You can, however, transfer your files between the two.  I will set out what must be done under and limitations of each.
  First, you will need to format the drive on your PC.  When you format the PC, you can format it in FAT32 or NTFS.
  (You mentioned that you do not see the drive in the computer) To format drive:
  Click 'Start' > right click on 'Computer' > select 'manage '.
  Click on "disk management".
  In the right pane, you should see your drive > you can then do a right click and 'format '.
  FAT32:
  This format will allow you to easily transfer files between the two.  This format becomes problematic when you transfer files more than 4 G.  There is a limit of 4 GB in FAT32, etc. of many movies are bigger than that and cannot be transferred using this format.
  NTFS
  This format has no size limitation, however, in its normal state it will be 'Read only' on Mac.  If you will not be able to transfer all the data itself.  While doing some research on the web, it seems that you can use a program called MacFuse on your Mac to change to NTFS files.  I have not confirmed this, but you can give it a try.  If this program works as planned, it would be the way to go.
  Please let us know if it did or did not solve your problem.
  See you soon

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• I can't use my external hard drive from toshiba on computer in the window, but I can use it on apple.

  I can't use my external hard drive from toshiba on computer in the window, but I can use it on apple. Is there someone who can help me solve it I will be grateful for it :)

  When it is connected to the PC, it is visible in disk management?

  Was this a drive that has been formatted using your Mac with the mac file system? If so it will not turn on the PC, without the use of third party software

• I can't erase my external hard drive as my Mac told me!

  I have a Fantom external hard drive 1 TB which is my drive Time Machine for years.  Sometimes it disconnects itself, but it has reconnected always very well.  But today as I got an error message that says that the drive could not be fixed by disk utility and would not appear as a disk in the Finder.  Utility disk SEES the drive but can't get it cannot eject it and can't fix it.  I'm ok with totally annihilate and nine.  She had backups, and I can easily do a new backup at any time.  The problem is that the disk utility will not mount it so I can delete it, but when I try just to erase, it cannot do without mount everything first!  I'm in this catch-22: How can I wipe the drive and start over when disk utility can't do?  It also will not mount on my Windows laptop, so I can't wipe it clean there either, reformat it on my Mac.  Anyone have an idea how I can just wipe my own drive so that I can use it on my Mac again?

  iMac (27-inch, mid 2010), OS X Yosemite, Version 10.10.5

  UPDATE TO ORIGINAL POSTER:

  I was finally able to remedy using Terminal Server by following the instructions described here:

  http://Apple.StackExchange.com/a/105674

  It reads in part:

  You can force unmount a disk by running the following command in Terminal:

  diskutil unmountDisk force /Volumes/VOLUMENAME 

  ^{Replace VOLUMENAME by the name of a volume on the disk that you are trying to take it apart.}

  I had first to use "diskutil list" first to find out what the Mac called this external hard drive because it was RECOGNIZED but would not mount or dismount.  Instead of using "/ Volumes/VOLUMENAME", my Mac called the drive in question "/ dev/disk2.  My full order was "diskutil unmountDisk force/dev/disk2".

  It worked immediately, and then disk utility was very quickly able to erase the disc.  Once erased, he mounted again very well!  So if anyone has the same problem, try this!

• Question: How can I format an external hard drive

  I am trying to use an external hard drive with Time Machine.  He tells me that my external must be formatted in a format "journaled". I can't find any way to do it and the Mac is do not do it either. Can someone tell me how to proceed so that Time Machine works to put in shape?

  If Time Machine is not reformat the disk itself, choose Utilities in the Finder Go menu, open disk utility, select the drive in the sidebar and delete it.

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• I can't find my external hard drive

  Hello

  I have a drive hard new, not used externally. It has its own drive system and goes into USB.

  A friend got for me (he knows computers!), it's a drive hard there, for which he bought coverage.

  He says that it's compatible pc and mac and my friend tested, and it worked on his windows pc. He said all I had to do was of gives it so it would be mac compatible.

  Today, I wanted to do, but I can't drive anywhere on my macbook! It does not appear in the disk utility, or anywhere else that I checked.

  So I thought maybe it was automatically conferted in windows format, when my friend plugged to test. Who is right why I tried my husbands laptop windows-computer, so maybe I could set up here to something my macbook can read. But the disc is nowhere on my husbands laptop as well!

  The hard disk is turned on, the little green light says it's on...

  What can I do to find it?

  p.s. I'm still under OSX 10.6 (this is why I need it. I want to back up my documents before updating to the new OSX)

  Thank you!

  Jelka

  If the external hard drive is not readable by a Mac or a PC, then it is either corrupted or it has not been partitioned and formatted yet.

  Because it is not found in disk utility, I think at this point it is the first and will not be usable. However, if it worked on your friend's PC, told format to FAT32. You should then be able to access it with disk utility and reformat in HFS + for your Mac.

• Can I save one external hard drive to another on a mac?

  I have just changed Windows for iMac and I have no idea of the backup of the system on a mac.

  I have an external hard drive that is used for the pictures I use Photoshop and Lightroom. I want to know how I can backup this disc on an another external hard drive and update only the files that have changed on the original disc.

  It would be also possible to save the iMac to a third external hard drive?

  I would really appreciate the help.

  The best way to save your Mac's Time Machine. It can save the Mac gradually and keeps a history of backups, so that you can go to different moments in time when you restore your Mac.  Time Machine can also include external drives to the backup, see this link: the basics of the Mac: Time Machine

  If you want to save your Media Player separately use cloning software for updating a copy cloned, for example carbon copy clone.

• Satellite 2450-101: can I run recovery external HARD drive or USB key using

  Hello.

  I have a Satellite 2450-101, on which the DVD player seems to have failed (could be engine, laser; uncertain).

  I want to perform a full restore of the product, using both disks that came with the computer.
  Defective hard drives before, I copied the data on these disks to an external hard drive and a usb flash drive.

  Is it possible for me to run the recovery of the proceeds of one of these media (or indeed any source, other than the internal DVD player)?

  Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. See you soon.

  > Defective hard drives before, I copied the data on these disks to an external hard drive and a usb flash drive.
  > Is it possible for me to run the recovery of the proceeds of one of these media (or indeed any source, other than the internal DVD player)?
  Hmmm I doubt that this can be possible because it is not possible to boot from a USB flash or external HARD disk drive.

  What you could do is to copy the folder the original Microsoft CD i386 on the HARD drive and then you can run setup.exe from this folder.
  It would begin installing the XP installation program.

  But Toshiba Recovery disk contains only image files and there is no i386 folder and therefore, you need the CD of XP Ms.

• Where and how can I reinstall the external hard drive to the new HD to the computer?

  Original title: HD crashed.

  I want to thank the person who answered my question about the HD crashed I saved all my data and window xp. My next question is, how and where can I reinstall external hard drive for the new HD to the computer? Should I send it to drive c or where? I'm not strong when it comes to computers. I know just enough to get me in trouble. Thank you.

  Hello!

  You will need to use a full copy of Windows XP.  Should be a sticker with the product key on the side of your desk or below if it is a laptop.

  Once you have this drive, you can reinstall Windows XP.  After you have installed all the software and drivers, you will be able to transfer all your data to the new HARD drive.

  If you don't have a copy of Windows XP, you can probably get a copy of the recovery from the manufacturing of computer media.  Just to provide the model and serial number and they should sent it.