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Removing Linux OS from external Hard Drive
I have acquired a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that has a Ubuntu Linux operating system on it. The hard drive itself is, I believe, only a couple of years old and has only been used with Linux on it, from what I understand.
I'd prefer to use this 1TB drive for file storage, but I can't see it under the list of disk drives (iow the old My Computer listing), in order to do anything with it. I'm assuming that because it's got another OS on it, it is not readable or detectable in Windows 7.
I have managed to view its partitions under Disk Management; they are: 245MB healthy active primary partition; 1.86 GB healthy primary partition; 93.13 healthy primary partition; and 836.27 healthy primary partition.
But apart from that, I'm not sure what else I can do with the thing, or indeed what I SHOULD do with it, to make it (a) readable and (b) usable for storing the usual photos, files, etc from my Windows 7 pc. I'm reading various other posts here but can't find an exact match of circumstances.