The tutorial explains how to do this with Western Digital (WD) disks, but the general approach should work well Super-annoying menace of completely unnecessary vendor crap that is so audaciously bundled with sold hardware. I was angered, but this the experience gave me a superb opportunity to show you how you can handle the Partitioning tools could not detect or delete. However, I did not expect a hidden partition to be included, one that most conventional
Well, I knew the device would come preformatted with NTFS and loaded with all kinds of garbage utilities that Necessitate wiping some of those away or using a second hard disk. As the machine wasĪlready clogged with a quadruple boot, exploring new operating systems would Started using for multi-booting various Linux distributions off my RD510 laptop, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint and others. Just a few weeks ago, I bought a 640GB Western Digital 2.5-inch Passport external USB drive, which I one and 'windows' are the partitions of the portable HDD.Every now and then I head into my favorite local computer store and buy a handful of gadgets, mainly disks ofĪll kinds. also I changed the label from "Mac" to "one" as I was trying things.
so now I have two empty partitions but I want to have one 1TB volume in NTFSĮdit: I also had limited success trying to get the partitions to exFAT format, thats why they appear that way in the screenshot. The only success I have had was with some WD format program, but it ended saying the format failed, yet the partition looks empty now. Here is my screenshot of the format failing with both computer manager and Cmd.exeĪny help or insight would be very much appreciated!!Īll I am trying to do is delete EVERYTHING and have one volume formatted NTFS. ( ), his (ashers2ashers) post is at the end, and on the next page. I have no clue what this means or how to get around it.Googling leads me to a bunch of dead ends, and then there's one guy with the same problem from 2010 and he didn't explain how he fixed it. The error was "The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or and application request"
Using computer manager resulted in an error when trying to remove the partitions. The drive works fine, never had any problems and I could read and write files to both partitions using my PC running windows 7 and MacDrive.
It was originally a FAT32 drive but i partitioned it as one half Mac file system and one half Windows (NTFS I think). I have been trying to format my WD portable hard drive for the past few hours with no luck.
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