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Trying to format 4TB internal HDD, won't show up in diskpart

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  • Quick Format
  • Disk Management
  • Hard Drives
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July 18, 2014 4:12:17 PM

Trying to do this in Windows 8.1 but having no luck.

I ran disk management as admin and my drive showed up. I can't recall exactly how I did it but I set it up as GPT, and the whole disk is showing up. However when I right-click on it and select quick format (I went with the default setting of UDF 2.01, not sure if thats right), I'm told it is not possible. Then when I deselect quick format, I'm told the media is write-protected. I googled that and found this:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/245174/restore_access_to...

Which basically says use diskpart. But when I type 'list volume' the drive does not show up. What can I do?


Update - used Ubuntu Live CD and gparted to format the drive, then I was able to play around with it in windows disk management. Problem solved

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July 19, 2014 12:17:08 AM

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