Elliot B. Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) The 1 TB hard drive arrived today. I connected it to my PC but nothing appears in This PC. I appear unable to format it as an NTFS drive. Disk Management shows: Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Use diskpart. Level it and start over. Xenon and Brandon H 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipsylalapo Supervisor Posted March 31, 2020 Supervisor Share Posted March 31, 2020 Do you have a Mac available? Seems they come formatted differently and may not be readable from a Windows PC off the bat. Quote Here’s something your My Passport for Mac Quick Install Guide might not tell you: Hard drives usually come formatted in two different ways, one catering to Windows and one catering to Mac. NTFS-formatted drives work with Windows computers, and HFS+ drives work with Mac. Source Just now, adrynalyne said: Use diskpart. Level it and start over. That was going to be my next action....I swear 😉 adrynalyne 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasondefaoite Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Delete the 200MB EFI partition (right click on it, delete), then the same with the 931GB partition. After that the entire drive should be unallocated. Then you can right click on it and format it as NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted March 31, 2020 Supervisor Share Posted March 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, adrynalyne said: Use diskpart. Level it and start over. if diskpart isn't able to detect it due to windows limitations you may be able to format it by booting into GParted from a USB stick as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Brandon H said: if diskpart isn't able to detect it due to windows limitations you may be able to format it by booting into GParted from a USB stick as well If disk management can detect it (as it shows), diskpart will be fine. Open diskpart list disk select disk [number] clean disk Circaflex 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted March 31, 2020 Supervisor Share Posted March 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, adrynalyne said: If disk utility can detect it (as it shows), diskpart will be fine. Open diskpart list disk select disk [number] clean disk yeah I misread the OP; I thought he was saying disk utility couldn't detect it but realized was just saying it couldn't format it. so yeah either solution should work fine edit: disk utility is basically worthless; it's so limited on what it can do, I don't understand why they've never expanded its functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 49 minutes ago, adrynalyne said: If disk management can detect it (as it shows), diskpart will be fine. Open diskpart list disk select disk [number] clean disk Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, Elliot B. said: Any ideas? That was from memory and faulty apparently. Type just clean. dipsylalapo and Brandon H 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted March 31, 2020 Supervisor Share Posted March 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, Elliot B. said: Any ideas? looks like once you select the disk you just use the command 'clean' not 'clean disk' judging by the help screen that it recommended you look at 🙂 adrynalyne 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Thank you, all! 🙂 goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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