bushwacker
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Hi All,
I have a WD Elements 1tb External hard drive which I used with my linux sat receiver for recordings and stuff, It was formatted in ext 4 format.
I have now bought a new one which doesn't need to be powered (uses usb to power it). So I want to format the WD back to ntfs/fat32 so I can use with windows as a storage drive.
The problem is When I plugged it into my laptop I went to disk management deleted the partition made active and formatted into ntfs but it doesn't show in windows explorer.
Is there something else I should be doing or am I doing something totally wrong ? All I want to use it for now is storage of photos and videos stuff like that but useable by windows.
cheers
I have a WD Elements 1tb External hard drive which I used with my linux sat receiver for recordings and stuff, It was formatted in ext 4 format.
I have now bought a new one which doesn't need to be powered (uses usb to power it). So I want to format the WD back to ntfs/fat32 so I can use with windows as a storage drive.
The problem is When I plugged it into my laptop I went to disk management deleted the partition made active and formatted into ntfs but it doesn't show in windows explorer.
Is there something else I should be doing or am I doing something totally wrong ? All I want to use it for now is storage of photos and videos stuff like that but useable by windows.
cheers