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Did you try: Brand new 1.5TB Extension not recognised - cannot "initialise"? My post #2.
Brand new 1.5TB Extension not recognised - cannot "initialise"
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Jumanji -
When the drive was installed, it was still unallocated and uninitialised in disk management.
im also unable to to find the drive in 'Device manager', but the list is quite long (30+ in the list) and im not exactly sure what im looking for. theres certainly nothing in the list with 'seagate' in the name, 'unknown USB device', or anything with a yellow '!' next to it.
further suggestions? :S
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oh right sorry britton30, i have no idea why i missed your post, how rude of me.
the drive is indeed brand new, out of the box. its connected by what im assuming is a standard USB cable.
going to download the partition wizard now and get back to you.
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New #14
i thought i replied, but i cant find it :S
britton -
can you elaborate what i need to do with the partition wizard? i downloaded the home version, but there seems to be a lot of options and i dont want to cause any incurable change. to begin: do i want to format or partition the drive? there also seems to be 4 different portions of the drive and their details read as follows:
14.4 gb - other - primary - none
100 mb - unformatted - primary - active
223.9 gb - unformatted - primary - none
1158.7 gb - unallocated - logical - none
basically there are multiple options for each detail for each portion - what should i do?
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New #15
First make sure you are selecting the new external drive to work on. you would want to create a partition and then format it. Odd to have prtitions like shown on a new drive, if indeed there are, delete them and proceed.
As I said, be sure it is only the new drive you're working on, PW will list all drives and partitions in your system.
14.4 gb - other - primary - none maybe OEM recovery
100 mb - unformatted - primary - active System reserved, your boot manager, don't change
223.9 gb - unformatted - primary - none your Windows 7 installation probably
1158.7 gb - unallocated - logical - none should be the external
Unless all the above is external and you've tried to install Win 7 on it.
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sorry, all of the above is the external (which is 1.5 TB)
does that change what i should do?
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I would advise the OP to format the external drive on another PC using HP USB Disk storage format Utility assuming that it works on another PC as he had mentioned. Only the USB drive will be shown and that way he won't be confused and mess up with his PC even accidentally.(I am amused to know he has four partitions on a new hard drive.)
HP USB Format tool: http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197Last edited by jumanji; 27 Dec 2011 at 08:19.
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okay so when i right click --> 'wipe partition', it asks me to choose a 'wiping method':
Fill sectors with Zero (Quick)
Fill sectors with One (Quick)
Fill sectors with Zero & One (Quick)
DoD 5220.22-M (3 passes) (Very Slow)
DoD 5220.28-STD (7 passes) (Very Slow)
can anyone shed some light as to what option i should choose to wipe each partition?
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