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Access to USB Attached HD
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I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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Is the disk assigned a letter in Explorer? You need to run fdisk from a
command prompt window. Once you have used fdisk to create a partition on the drive you should be able to see the drive in Explorer and format the drive by right clicking on the drive letter and selecting Format. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? All the examples I've seen have required the drive to be jumpered as Master. I hope all goes well. -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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Until you have FDISK'd and formatted it, you won't see it in Windows
Explorer but if I remember correctly (and its been a VERY long time since I tried it), you need use the FDISK commands through a DOS prompt whilst running WinMe to recognise and work on it. That will then allow you FDISK and then format it. At this stage (whilst connected to USB), the jumper setting is not relevant, it only becomes significant when connected to an IDE controller. The old (open) Western Digital Knowledge Base used to have a step-by-step guide - id #1051 http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....=&p_faqid=1051 but sadly, you now need to register to gain access to their KB - assuming that article is still there. Mart "AAH" wrote in message ... WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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Mike
It is very kind of you for your attention. This is an second hand hd from a friend who is not very much familiar with this business. It is a NTFS format disk which winme would not show in explorer. I ran Partition Magic 7 which has a command to convert NTFS to Fat32/fat. I converted one partition to Fat32 while doing the other PM7 has picked up some error on that partition and some how this partition has become "UNALLOCATED" I do not know how to allocate it. It appears that part is not empty. The HD particular a- Unallocated 7.8 mb Status none Pri Extended 78,144.3 mb none Pri Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi WinMe is allocating a letter G to the Fat32 part which is nearly half of the total, and not showing the "Unallocated"part "Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi" "When I Fdisk from DOS Prompt it only picks Hard Disk 1 and do not know to force Fdisk to pickup Hard Disk 2? to work o`n. ------------------------------------------------ FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi This part was shown in My Computer where I formated it by r/click command and it caame along in explorer with other drives. "Mike M" wrote in message ... Is the disk assigned a letter in Explorer? You need to run fdisk from a command prompt window. Once you have used fdisk to create a partition on the drive you should be able to see the drive in Explorer and format the drive by right clicking on the drive letter and selecting Format. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? All the examples I've seen have required the drive to be jumpered as Master. I hope all goes well. -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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Mike
& Mart Thanks for your respose. I have sorted it now. Thanks once again for your attention.+ "AAH" wrote in message ... WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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You're welcome AHH, good to see you've got it sorted.
BTW - Thanks Mike, for the Vista .contact fix (mentioned elsewhere). Sorry it was such a late phone call last night, but - as ever - it was good to chat. Mart "AAH" wrote in message ... Mike & Mart Thanks for your respose. I have sorted it now. Thanks once again for your attention.+ "AAH" wrote in message ... WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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AAH,
That's good news and well done. Sorry about my misleading post which suggested you could format from Windows Explorer once the disk had been partitioned when, as Mart rightly said, you need to run both FDSK and FORMAT from a command prompt window. -- Mike AAH wrote: Mike & Mart Thanks for your respose. I have sorted it now. Thanks once again for your attention.+ |
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NTFS partitions are not visible to ME (sorry if I'm repeating what' further
down the thread - but it bearssayoing again anyhow ) If you really need the data on the partition, then find one of the converters, or copy the data to a FAT32 partition (using an NTFS-aware OS), then FDISK and format the partition with ME -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "AAH" wrote in message ... Mike It is very kind of you for your attention. This is an second hand hd from a friend who is not very much familiar with this business. It is a NTFS format disk which winme would not show in explorer. I ran Partition Magic 7 which has a command to convert NTFS to Fat32/fat. I converted one partition to Fat32 while doing the other PM7 has picked up some error on that partition and some how this partition has become "UNALLOCATED" I do not know how to allocate it. It appears that part is not empty. The HD particular a- Unallocated 7.8 mb Status none Pri Extended 78,144.3 mb none Pri Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi WinMe is allocating a letter G to the Fat32 part which is nearly half of the total, and not showing the "Unallocated"part "Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi" "When I Fdisk from DOS Prompt it only picks Hard Disk 1 and do not know to force Fdisk to pickup Hard Disk 2? to work o`n. ------------------------------------------------ FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi This part was shown in My Computer where I formated it by r/click command and it caame along in explorer with other drives. "Mike M" wrote in message ... Is the disk assigned a letter in Explorer? You need to run fdisk from a command prompt window. Once you have used fdisk to create a partition on the drive you should be able to see the drive in Explorer and format the drive by right clicking on the drive letter and selecting Format. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? All the examples I've seen have required the drive to be jumpered as Master. I hope all goes well. -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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Hi Noel:
Would a utility such as the freeware Paragon NTFS for Win98 (supports W95, 98, & ME) be of any use to read the NTFS partition here? (See: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-win98/ .) Cheers, Jerry "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... NTFS partitions are not visible to ME (sorry if I'm repeating what' further down the thread - but it bearssayoing again anyhow ) If you really need the data on the partition, then find one of the converters, or copy the data to a FAT32 partition (using an NTFS-aware OS), then FDISK and format the partition with ME -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "AAH" wrote in message ... Mike It is very kind of you for your attention. This is an second hand hd from a friend who is not very much familiar with this business. It is a NTFS format disk which winme would not show in explorer. I ran Partition Magic 7 which has a command to convert NTFS to Fat32/fat. I converted one partition to Fat32 while doing the other PM7 has picked up some error on that partition and some how this partition has become "UNALLOCATED" I do not know how to allocate it. It appears that part is not empty. The HD particular a- Unallocated 7.8 mb Status none Pri Extended 78,144.3 mb none Pri Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi WinMe is allocating a letter G to the Fat32 part which is nearly half of the total, and not showing the "Unallocated"part "Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi" "When I Fdisk from DOS Prompt it only picks Hard Disk 1 and do not know to force Fdisk to pickup Hard Disk 2? to work o`n. ------------------------------------------------ FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi This part was shown in My Computer where I formated it by r/click command and it caame along in explorer with other drives. "Mike M" wrote in message ... Is the disk assigned a letter in Explorer? You need to run fdisk from a command prompt window. Once you have used fdisk to create a partition on the drive you should be able to see the drive in Explorer and format the drive by right clicking on the drive letter and selecting Format. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? All the examples I've seen have required the drive to be jumpered as Master. I hope all goes well. -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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Yep - very probably.
I've not used it myself - it would give access to the files, but I'd be wary of using it as a long-term solution. One possible route to a solution would be to use BootItNG to reduce the partition size to the minimum, and create a new FAT32 partition in the newly available space, then use P-NTFS-98 to copy the data across from the NTFS partition to the new partition(or simply copy the data to a new HD using P-NTFS-98) HTH? -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "Jerry Martin" wrote in message ... Hi Noel: Would a utility such as the freeware Paragon NTFS for Win98 (supports W95, 98, & ME) be of any use to read the NTFS partition here? (See: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-win98/ .) Cheers, Jerry "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... NTFS partitions are not visible to ME (sorry if I'm repeating what' further down the thread - but it bearssayoing again anyhow ) If you really need the data on the partition, then find one of the converters, or copy the data to a FAT32 partition (using an NTFS-aware OS), then FDISK and format the partition with ME -- Noel Paton CrashFixPC Nil Carborundum Illegitemi www.crashfixpc.co.uk "AAH" wrote in message ... Mike It is very kind of you for your attention. This is an second hand hd from a friend who is not very much familiar with this business. It is a NTFS format disk which winme would not show in explorer. I ran Partition Magic 7 which has a command to convert NTFS to Fat32/fat. I converted one partition to Fat32 while doing the other PM7 has picked up some error on that partition and some how this partition has become "UNALLOCATED" I do not know how to allocate it. It appears that part is not empty. The HD particular a- Unallocated 7.8 mb Status none Pri Extended 78,144.3 mb none Pri Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi WinMe is allocating a letter G to the Fat32 part which is nearly half of the total, and not showing the "Unallocated"part "Unallocated 39,142.7 mb none Logi" "When I Fdisk from DOS Prompt it only picks Hard Disk 1 and do not know to force Fdisk to pickup Hard Disk 2? to work o`n. ------------------------------------------------ FAT32 39,001.5 mb none Logi This part was shown in My Computer where I formated it by r/click command and it caame along in explorer with other drives. "Mike M" wrote in message ... Is the disk assigned a letter in Explorer? You need to run fdisk from a command prompt window. Once you have used fdisk to create a partition on the drive you should be able to see the drive in Explorer and format the drive by right clicking on the drive letter and selecting Format. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? All the examples I've seen have required the drive to be jumpered as Master. I hope all goes well. -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: WinMe OS I am trying to format/fdisk a hd attached through the USB port. How can I do it? I am finding difficult to have access to it. The hd is in an enclouser. Is the Jumper be at master or slave? Please help? |
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