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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:16
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Did you assign it a drive letter in Disc Management? You cannot format until you do.
Ive no idea how to do that
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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:17
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cant format in disk management
What happens when you try ? .... or does the drive not show in Disk Management ?
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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:22
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What happens when you try ? .... or does the drive not show in Disk Management ?
In disk management the drive is listed but when i right click the hard drive format isnt listed
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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:22
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844
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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:26
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That doesnt help, if i right click on the hard drive i get 3 options, new parttition, properties and help, the drive is listed as being unallocated
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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:28
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So do new partition. You partition a drive prior to formatting.
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Old 11th Feb 2009, 07:30
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So do new partition. You partition a drive prior to formatting.

ok thanks, i can see where i was going wrong, i thought i had to format it frst, thanks
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