Click (double click) on it and run. Choose your external hard drive and low level format it. ( This may take quite sometime but you can see the progress in the bar)
When done your ext. hard drive would have been initialised to the factory condition and you will be starting with a clean slate.
Now partition/format it to exFat with Disk Management. Assign drive letters when done if necessary.
I have an exFAT formatted external hard drive that I use to back up my computers and share files between my work laptop (Mac) and my home laptop (PC).
Most of the time, when I plug in my drive, it comes up with the check disk message where it asks whether I want to "Automatically fix file system...
I had a DVD recorder with internal HDD (Nortek, ndvx hd 160 p).
It was repaired once, but the second time it stopped working, the repairer said the vendor didn't longer provide spare parts.
I asked him to give me the HDD back as I had downloaded tons of home made movie of
my kids from a...
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Recently I have formatted my Usb External Harddisk with exFAT, as I heard of the benefits of it over FAT32.
Its an IMATION Drive with 320gb storage.
Device Properties: TOSHIBA MK3252GSX USB Device
The problem is that it takes forever to copy files from the drive as compared to when...
I have an external drive that was formatted FAT32 which I have been using with my XP laptop for the past year. I have data on it that I want to transfer to my Windows 7 laptop. However, as soon as I connect it to my Windows 7 laptop, it comes up with a message saying "You need to format the disk...
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Please accept my appologies if this is a known and solved issue that I haven't found yet.
I formatted my Western Digital 500GB My Book with Windows 7 RC and copied all my data across my network from my mac's external HDD. I'm sure I formatted it in NTFS and not the new Windows7 FAT32...
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