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SOLVED QUICKLY :external usb drive has become two with missing GB

Started by digikiwi , May 24 2006 07:29 PM

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digikiwi
Posted 24 May 2006 - 07:29 PM

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It gets more interesting by the minute. I had started trying to reconstruct RAID onto my friends external USB drive of 300GB. However I saw that the process was going to take forever and not likely to achieve much, so I cancelled. I was using an application called RAID reconstructor by Runtime.

Now whenever I plug in the disk (tried both desktop and laptop) it shows up as two unformatted drives :whistling: , one with a format capacity of 68.3GB and the other 43.4GB, both as an NTFS. Bugger!

How can I reformat this to its original state?

Edited by digikiwi, 24 May 2006 - 07:43 PM.

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 07:34 PM

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try this...go to Administrative Tools ... Computer Management ... Storage .... Disk Management chose the external drive...format
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Posted 24 May 2006 - 07:43 PM

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:whistling: Thanks happyrck, lifesaver. It's formatting now. Now to get back to my other dramas lol.

Really appreciated the quick reply

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 08:17 PM

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your welcome :whistling:
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