Fdisk/ External USB drive

[jeff]

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Will Fdisk see an external USB drive's partition?

Jeff

 

[Guest]

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Who cares if FDISK sees an external USB drive partition?

If you want to repartition / partition / format an external USB drive
all you have to do is attach the device to a working PC, go to Disk
Management in Computer Management and prepare your partition/s and
format from that utility.

 

[jeff]

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"modiftek" <turbo27685@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1116702006.229097.103180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Who cares if FDISK sees an external USB drive partition?
>
> If you want to repartition / partition / format an external USB drive
> all you have to do is attach the device to a working PC, go to Disk
> Management in Computer Management and prepare your partition/s and
> format from that utility.


Got it..thnx


Jeff
>

 

[Guest]

I have an external USB hard drive that had a laptop cloned to it. Now it will not delete the recovery partition. Can format the primary partition fine but no options for formatting the recovery partition.

Any suggestions other than a 3rd party partition tool (partition magic, gparted etc)

 

[house70]

I have an external USB hard drive that had a laptop cloned to it. Now it will not delete the recovery partition. Can format the primary partition fine but no options for formatting the recovery partition.

Any suggestions other than a 3rd party partition tool (partition magic, gparted etc)

You can restore the whole drive to factory clean state. But, it will involve using a third party app, pretty easy though.
If interested, look up Killdisk. That baby will low-level format anything.