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Start - Control panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management
Storage - Disk Management or, in the Start search box, type diskmgmt.msc Enter Here's a few tutorials... http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...partition.html http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/95...te-extend.html -- Windows 7 beta http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I know all about right clicking I do it all the time it can be a real shortcut. You geniuses don't seem to understand that I need you to explain how to do these things your all talking about. What the heck is drive management I could not find it under help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Walter, All through your computer, by selecting an object etc., right clicking gives you different options/choices of what you can do to that object. Don't be afraid to experiment with the right click. Now, right click on the empty space in drive management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Yeh but tell me how to do it!! -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that you want to delete a partition. Are you certain that it is not "Unallocated Space"" If it is as I suspect all you have to do is create a partition in the unallocated space and format the partition. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... There is no delete partition in there. I opened drive manager and went to Disk drives/chose Generic USB Disk USB Device and right clicked. No delete partition. Also opened computer and right clicked on that drive. No delete partition. Only format and a few other things. Where's delete partition at because a format alone won't fix the drive? -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You work with an external drive the same as you would work with an internal drive. Use drive manager! Go to the drive and right click on the visual representation of the drive. You will see options there. Delete partition / create partition / format partition. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... How do you delete partitions on a external hard drive. I'm assuming your telling me to do that first and then format it? -- Walt "Malke" wrote in message ... Walter Goldschmidt wrote: I tried to format drive afterwords but it still didn't function properly. There is no way for me to know what you did or the state of the drive by reading about it in a newsgroup. I suspect that you didn't realize that you need to completely delete all partitions and create new ones before you attempted a format. I've had an external drive be corrupted and it took a bit of doing to get it back in shape so I could format it and use it again. The drive was *physically* fine. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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external hard drive
Now that's more like it. Your short answer was all it took then I was able
to figure out what to do. I deleted the volume and then recreated it and formatted the drive. I hope this works as theses drives are expensive. This tool will come in handy from time to time. Never knew anything about administrative tools before now. I consider myself above average when it comes to computer knowledge but I'm still learning and probably always will. Thanks for all your replies, these news groups are great for learning. Never assume the person your giving your answer to knows how to do it. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Type Management in search. Start Computer Management Start Disk/Drive Management under Storage -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... I know all about right clicking I do it all the time it can be a real shortcut. You geniuses don't seem to understand that I need you to explain how to do these things your all talking about. What the heck is drive management I could not find it under help. -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... Walter, All through your computer, by selecting an object etc., right clicking gives you different options/choices of what you can do to that object. Don't be afraid to experiment with the right click. Now, right click on the empty space in drive management. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... Yeh but tell me how to do it!! -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You are saying that you want to delete a partition. Are you certain that it is not "Unallocated Space"" If it is as I suspect all you have to do is create a partition in the unallocated space and format the partition. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... There is no delete partition in there. I opened drive manager and went to Disk drives/chose Generic USB Disk USB Device and right clicked. No delete partition. Also opened computer and right clicked on that drive. No delete partition. Only format and a few other things. Where's delete partition at because a format alone won't fix the drive? -- Walt "Richard Urban" wrote in message ... You work with an external drive the same as you would work with an internal drive. Use drive manager! Go to the drive and right click on the visual representation of the drive. You will see options there. Delete partition / create partition / format partition. -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Walter Goldschmidt" wrote in message ... How do you delete partitions on a external hard drive. I'm assuming your telling me to do that first and then format it? -- Walt "Malke" wrote in message ... Walter Goldschmidt wrote: I tried to format drive afterwords but it still didn't function properly. There is no way for me to know what you did or the state of the drive by reading about it in a newsgroup. I suspect that you didn't realize that you need to completely delete all partitions and create new ones before you attempted a format. I've had an external drive be corrupted and it took a bit of doing to get it back in shape so I could format it and use it again. The drive was *physically* fine. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |