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Formatting an external hard drive
Name: JohnEBoy Date: March 3, 2004 at 23:07:17 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 SP4 CPU/Ram: 1.5ghz/256DDR
Comment:
I cannot figure out why windows won't let me format my Western Digital external hard drive. I open "My Computer," click on the HD icon and click "format." I try to use FAT32 and the formatting seems to go ok, but when it's done I get an error message saying, "Could not format the disk in drive E." If anyone knows how to do this successfully, please write a response
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