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djkltt12
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_ 		22. January 2008 @ 17:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I bought a Western Digital 1 TB external hard drive. The default is Fat32 and I was trying to change it to NTFS. In the process of doing so I right clicked the drive in the computer management window and accidentally clicked "Delete Volume" and the drive disappeared. How do I get my computer to recognize the device again? I am using Windows Vista Home Premium OS
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(I tried unplugging it and re-plugging it back in, it did not help.)
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 09:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 09:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Deleting the volume should only mean the drive will disappear in my computer. If you go to disk management, the drive should appear but without a partition, so make a new NTFS one using it.
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djkltt12
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 21:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
THANK-YOU Soooooooooooooo much sammorris!!!!!!!!!!! What you said worked. Thanks again!
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_ 		24. January 2008 @ 21:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Haha, you're welcome. Any more queries, post back.
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