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is it possible that the pre-existing partitions are due to software that seagate has preloaded onto the driver?
Brand new 1.5TB Extension not recognised - cannot "initialise"
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New #33
i see both disk 1 and disk 2. given my laptop has only 250gb of flash, disk 2 is clearly the external given it has a 1158gb partition in it. why do you ask essenbe?
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New #34
I only ask because there should not be 4 partitions on a new hard drive. I have 2 Seagate externals and they both had 1 partition, were formatted NTFS, and were plug and play. I wanted to make sure you didn't wipe the wrong drive.
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New #35
hmm yeah, i could definitely see myself making that mistake. no idea why. guess ill see in the morning!
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New #36
When you got the drive was it in a box or not? you should know that.
even a 'store model' would not have partitions. How did you acquire the drive?
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New #37
i got it for christmas! and the person who bought it definitely got it new. it came in the box, and it was sealed. they said however they were lucky because the store had confirmed it was the last one in stock they had.
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New #38
ok i dont know why, but partition wizard doesnt appear to have done anything. there are still 4 separate partitions in disk 2, all with the same details and information as stated above.
so confused.
guess ill try the formatting option on another computer!
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New #40
hey jumanji - ive just tried reformatting the drive on another computer using NFTS, but it still comes up as 'Unallocated' in disk management, only now when i right click --> intialise, it says 'The system cannot find the file specified.'
BLARGH.
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