I’m trying to figure out something where I don’t have to go begging to my brother to help with a computer problem. I was given a hard drive I’d like to use as a storage unit but the person wanted to clean it up before giving it to me. He used a program called Killdisk. Well it sure killed it. It shows up in the device directory and says it’s working but I don’t see where I can format it. Properties does not give me the option to do that.
Some older BIOS’s used to have a format low-level option - go in and see - something like Storage/Hard Drive menus, then highlight.
Otherwise, go into Administrative Tools->Disk Manager and select the drive. Right-click and remove any partitions so it’s a raw disk again. Then Right-click and say to create New Basic volume. Again, for paranoia’s sake, right-click and do Quick Format. Boom - should show up available. You MIGHT have to reboot to have Windows recognize it. Windows is weird like that.
You should be able to right click on it in windows explorer (or click the windows key + E to bring up your drives and choose the one you are trying to format-) and there should be a ‘format’ option In the right click menu-
Just type in ‘format blank drive’ in google- you should find some detailed isntrucitons - you may need to set the drive to some kind of partition first- can’t rmember exactly now- I’ll look it up when I get back for you
RE: Extra drive
Does file manager give it a drive letter?