Maxtor Shared Storage drives

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by bgunn, Oct 22, 2007.

  1. bgunn

    bgunn Private First Class

    Hello All:

    Hoping someone out there might be of assistance on this one.

    Wondering if there is a way to reformat completely a Maxtor Shared Storage drive, this included wiping out the administrator's password. Bascially, I want to go back to the way it started up right from the box.

    Haven't called Maxtor/Seagate yet but that is my last resort.

    thanks
    bgunn
     
    bgunn, Oct 22, 2007
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  2. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    If you are running XP, I would think you could go into Control Panel/Admin tools then Computer Management and lastly Disk Managment. I can see my 80 gig external drive in 2K from that.
    I highlight my disk, select Action from the top menu and then All tasks. One of the options is format.
    I didn't try it so I don't know if selecting format gives you a choice of FAT32 or NTFS.
     
    plodr, Oct 22, 2007
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