Hard Drive

[BoredCollie]

And why do we now have to have this file system installed on external hard drives? Is it perhaps something to so with the Big Brother surveillance state?

 

[Yevrag35]

Let's check to see if this is hardware and windows software related.
Download GParted:GParted -- Download
Disconnect all USB Devices (except for KB and Mouse)
Burn the ISO onto a CD and boot into it.

• Click Gparted->Devices. Identify other drives found at start up
• Connect USB drive. Wait 30-60 seconds
• Click Gparted->Refresh->Devices then Gparted->Devices
• Does USB drive appear now? If yes, verify drive info is what you expect
  >> (eg. disk size, number and types of partitions) <<
  Use Gparted to check if your USB hard drive is detected

 

[BoredCollie]

Thankyou for that. But a) my CD drive isn't working and I can't, as yet, afford a new one and b) I see that Gparted is a partition manager -- I have got a partition on my new external HDD and can view it and its contents fine (as yet). I am just wondering abou my old HDD on which I didn't put a partition; I just gave it an old-fashioned format.

At the moment I think my equipment is functioning as it should, although I remain cautious. I am just wondering why I got the hardware rejections ('disk not formatted' panels, for both HDDs) I got earlier. I don't want to be working on a HDD if there are likely to be recurrent issues.

With thanks once more.