Need help in Formatting external storage drive

Asked By Lance Harold 0 points N/A Posted on - 03/22/2012

Hello,

I need some help,here is the scenario my Samsung 320GB sata mobile hard drive cannot install anymore the operating system so i bought a new one which is seagate sata HDD and now my laptop is working properly,the problem is that I bought an enclosure for my Samsung HDD,because I am planning this to use as external drive just like flash drive.

So when i put now my Samsung HDD in the enclosure and plug it to my computer at the back. And i went to disk management to delete the partition. But after deleting including the system file. My HDD mobile Samsung is having only 298.9GB instead of 320GB.

How to get back in 320gb?And i make partition which is only 298.9gb then after that i formatted the partition in the disk management,but it says that it cannot be format. Can you help me on this how to format and to get back the size to 320gb. So that i can use now my external drive

I hope it could be solve,

Thanks.

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Answered By Hoting Gracia 5 points N/A #118795

Need help in Formatting external storage drive

Hi Lance,

The problem you are facing can be rectified in a very simple and easy manner as you can format the remaining space to some drive in which you made the partitions.

You simple use the hard disk at the time of anyone installing fresh operating system by connecting it to the system and make a format by adding the remaining space to the drive already installed.

Remember that while formatting the drive that you are adding the space that is left is formatted as its better to backup the data before you are going to format.

Hope this will solve the problem you are facing with the formatting of the hard disk currently in which you are facing with your personal laptop.

Thank You.

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