External Harddrive

by **Johnathan** on Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:22 pm

I installed Linux PC OS 2007 onto my 500gb external harddrive but something went wrong somewhere and Linux wont boot up from it. That's ok I don't want Linux on there anymore I want to keep it to make backups of my system now and for a few other thnig but when I installed Linux it had to reformat the harddrive so when I plug it into my windows machine the installing drivers ballon pops up and that's it I can't get into format it becasue I don't think Windows is reconizing it because it was formatted for Linux any ideas on how to format it or anyone know if i'm doing anything wrong.

by **nighthawk** on Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:09 pm

Go to Computer management and then to disk management, then right click hard drive and choose new partition/volume. If it doesn't work paste screenshot of disk management here.

by **Johnathan** on Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:21 pm

What hard drive do I select? The only one I can see is the one inside my C drive not the external.

by **nighthawk** on Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:36 pm

If it is external drive connected by USB then you should see it under Removable storage in disk management (if you have drivers installed for it).

If you can't do anything from windows then boot from some linux live cd or something like that and erase all partitions of your external hard drive, then boot windows and format it.

by **Johnathan** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:47 am

I have the drivers installed but it formatted in something that I can't remember I checked it last night under device management, i'll do the linux live CD thing today when I come home from school. Thanks.

by **nighthawk** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:45 pm

Not device manager, disk management

by **Johnathan** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:54 pm

I couldn't find disk management anywhere though.

by **nighthawk** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:12 pm

Do you have xp or vista? In xp you can access disk management through computer management, which can be accessed by right clicking my computer and choosing manage, or by typing diskmgmt.msc in Run dialog. I've never saw vista, but it should be about the same, try searching Vista's help for disk management.

by **Johnathan** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:04 pm

It doesnt show my external hard drive there. I'll load the Linux CD later when i've done my homework.

by **Johnathan** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:17 pm

I'm formatting it now in windows forgot to turn the harddrive on :oops:

36% atm still have to start on the homework

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