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BadDagger
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_ 		2. July 2008 @ 13:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i just bought a 1TB extrenal hard drive. It is a western digital my book essential. when i recived it it is formated as fat....and i want to get it to ntfs..how do i reformat a external hard drive ? the exteranl hard drive did nto come with any cd or dvd ..it can with acouple programes but for what i looked into them there is no options within thoes programes to reformat the hard drive..

thanks for the help in advance
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sammorris
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_ 		2. July 2008 @ 13:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Start-> Run -> diskmgmt.msc

Right click on the Drive that's your external, 'delete partition' then format it again using NTFS (Quick).
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