Hard drive format

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by durkinjt, Dec 22, 2011.

  1. durkinjt

    durkinjt Corporal

    I just finshed a low level format,my drive was cluttered with many programs I no longer needed, now after rebooting the drive is not recognized. Upon checking device manager it is there, yet don't show a "Computer" or any where else. Thanks in advance for any help
     
    durkinjt, Dec 22, 2011
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  2. tgell

    tgell Major Geek Extraordinaire

    You have to partition and format the drive after your low-level format that zeroed out the drive. Does the drive show up in Disk Management? Right click My Computer>Manage>Disk Management. If it does, Select the drive and right click. Select Create Simple Volume.
     
    tgell, Dec 22, 2011
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