How to reformat hard drive so appears in My Computer

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Ultimate Geek

#405284 16-Nov-2010 13:13

Computer management
Start > Search for computer management

Screenshot
Start search for snipping tool
Then select new window snip and save that snip of the disk management window to your computer
then upload to geekzone using the "upload an image file " link below.

tigger

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#405305 16-Nov-2010 13:47

Here we go. Never heard of snipping tool till now....

Thought I was uploading it to here - has it done?

tigger

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#405307 16-Nov-2010 13:50

I have uploaded screen shot to my image gallery on geekzone but cannot see it on this stream? How can I get it here or is there somewhere you can see it here?

tigger

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#405359 16-Nov-2010 15:18

Well have looked and cannot see how to load screen shot from My Gallery on Geekzone to this thread even though done the whole upload image and ticked the box to show as slide show or similar. Tips would be appreciated thanks.

tomgeeknz

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Ultimate Geek

#405364 16-Nov-2010 15:28

Copy the URL (link) from next to the image in your galery and then in the thread click the button "compose reply"

Find the insert image button (Te little tree with a white border, then paste the link into the image URL box. Click insert then post reply.

tigger

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#405367 16-Nov-2010 15:32

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#408692 24-Nov-2010 08:21

Hi there. I am still at square one on this and would really appreciate any help to the initial question if anyone has the time. Working away today but will plug in the hard driive and work on any directions suggested. Cheers.

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Master Geek

#408707 24-Nov-2010 08:50

All looks normal, can you right click on it and assign a drive letter?

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#408718 24-Nov-2010 09:10

How do I get to disk management - cannot remember?

ScottStevensNZ

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#408724 24-Nov-2010 09:18

Quick question, when you formatted the drive on the mac, did you format it to the Mac file system or Fat32?

I am doing this on XP, so if someone with win7 can chip in that would be helpful...

Right Click on "My Computer"
Select "Manage"

Manage Computer window pops up

Click "Disk Management"
Right click the dive and select "Change Drive Letter and Path"
Assign a drive letter to the disk

You might need to format it once the disk letter has been assigned

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#408730 24-Nov-2010 09:26

tigger: How do I get to disk management - cannot remember?

Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management.

tigger

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#408736 24-Nov-2010 09:34

Thanks for that and found my way. It appears I cannot assign a disk letter as the drive only appears as Disk 4 with partitions - in the boxes section below the lines of info section at top of the screen. Left or right click on any of the boxes does not give me an option to assign a letter.

When I formatted for Mac I just followed the instructions to format and do not know what configuration.

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#408744 24-Nov-2010 09:41

tigger: Thanks for that and found my way. It appears I cannot assign a disk letter as the drive only appears as Disk 4 with partitions - in the boxes section below the lines of info section at top of the screen. Left or right click on any of the boxes does not give me an option to assign a letter.

When I formatted for Mac I just followed the instructions to format and do not know what configuration.

This is where I will hand over to someone like Mauricio who probably has the right version of windows infront of them because from here I would say that you would need to run fdisk on the drive - which while not complicated requires a great deal of care...

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#408747 24-Nov-2010 09:46

Cheers, thanks for your help.

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#408754 24-Nov-2010 09:53

What options come up when you right-click the big partition? Are you happy to lose any data that might be on this drive at the moment?

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