the rest of the space was like inexistant. With some other USB drives it did appear in Disk Manager but only the mapped partition.So, I couldn't clear the partitions to reformat the whole thing.Disk Manager did not even show the Drive although it was mapped in the windows explorer.it could not access the partition saying you need to format it.Windows could not access the drive but recognized one of partitions and mapped it.several different filesystems.(ext 2/3, SWAP, FAT32.).Just un-tick the check-box which says create a bootable disk using.
If its an external drive and you want to re-format the drive from within windows RufusĪllowed me to format the drive to a Windows Compatible format.Īlthough rufus is designed for making a bootable USB drives from ISO images you can use it to just format the drive.
My first course of action will be recovering the data in the first partition and moving it to the second, but after that how can I format the two drives? Do I have to reinstall the whole OS and use the partition manager of Windows 7 installer or are there other ways? The problem here is that Windows recognizes the two drives and lists them in the control panel's devices list but doesn't allow me to do any action on them.ĪFAIK the problem with the first drive first partition (which is NTFS formatted) has something to do with MBR, maybe Linux messed with it and Windows 7 is incapable of using it. The second is a WDD 800GB, it contains one full partition EXT3 formatted, so that's not a surprise that is not recognized. One is a Hitachi 1TB with two partitions both NTFS formatted and I can access only one of the two. I've got a problem with a couple hard drives, I recently switched from a Debian Linux install to Windows 7, installation went without problems but now I find that there is no way to format a couple of hard drives I have installed:
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