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ericspencer   10-07-2009 at 04:57:07 AM

windows xp will not 'see' a bad external partition. I wish to just re-format same.

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Bronze Storage badge evongugg   10-07-2009 at 03:25:12 PM

Welcome to the forums!

Take the disk out of the enclosure, hook it up to a computer and partition and format it. Buy a new enclosure. Newegg and other stores sell them.


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foxy_roxy   10-09-2009 at 09:40:35 AM

Boot the computer [with the "bad" hard drive connected to it ] from a Linux Live CD like Parted Magic. It is free and you can download it from http://partedmagic.com/

See if you can format the external hard disk this way....If you can problem solved if not follow Evongugg's post....




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