How to reformat a Dish formatted EHD?

[isaacmorseMI]

I used a WD Essentials EHD to transfer programs from my 722K to my Hopper. I now want to use it with my computer again. However my computer is not seeing it at all. What am I doing wrong?

 

[3HaloODST]

Uh, well it should detect it. What OS do you have? If Vista/7, click Start, right-click Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management, make sure you select the EHD and not any other drive, right-click it, click Format, click Quick Format, filesystem NTFS (or whatever else you want,) allocation unit size Default, OK.

Hope this helps.

 

[GravelChan]

I used a WD Essentials EHD to transfer programs from my 722K to my Hopper. I now want to use it with my computer again. However my computer is not seeing it at all. What am I doing wrong?

Assuming Windows 7.....
Right click "Computer"
then click "Manage"
then click "Disk Management"
make sure you are working with the external disk....
I kind of forget from there but you may have to delete any partitions before formatting it.

Got beat on that one!

 

[the mack]

I never was able to reformat my WD drive either. disc management would only show the drive sectors, not the entire drive

 

[RickDee]

You should be able to clean up the drive with a free utility. EaseUS has a free tool called Partition Master that should do the trick. Go to Free Partition Magic alternative & free Partition Manager Software for Windows PC, Workstation and Server - EaseUS. or download from Free Download Magic Partition Manager freeware: EaseUS Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy and Partition Recovery Software.

 

[dfergie]

You should be able to clean up the drive with a free utility. EaseUS has a free tool called Partition Master that should do the trick. Go to Free Partition Magic alternative & free Partition Manager Software for Windows PC, Workstation and Server - EaseUS. or download from Free Download Magic Partition Manager freeware: EaseUS Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy and Partition Recovery Software.

I've used this also with good results!

 

[isaacmorseMI]

You should be able to clean up the drive with a free utility. EaseUS has a free tool called Partition Master that should do the trick. Go to Free Partition Magic alternative & free Partition Manager Software for Windows PC, Workstation and Server - EaseUS. or download from Free Download Magic Partition Manager freeware: EaseUS Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy and Partition Recovery Software.

Will try that later. Thanks!

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[isaacmorseMI]

You should be able to clean up the drive with a free utility. EaseUS has a free tool called Partition Master that should do the trick. Go to Free Partition Magic alternative & free Partition Manager Software for Windows PC, Workstation and Server - EaseUS. or download from Free Download Magic Partition Manager freeware: EaseUS Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy and Partition Recovery Software.

That software worked great! Thanks A bunch!

 

[dfergie]

I used it for a 3TB WD EHDD drive I thought I could use with my Popcorn Hour, tried with my Directv dvr then Dish... ended up using this software to reformat before pulling the drive & installing in my desktop a month or so ago...

 

[Ray M]

WD also has a disk utility to format their drives WD Support / Downloads / Legacy External / WD Firewire External Hard Drive It worked on my WD EHDIt is called "External USB/FireWire Fat32 Formatting Utility"

 

[lapplegate]

I have the same problem. I interrupted the dish format on a new EHD. Now it has only 500 gb instead of the 1.5 tb available. I want to somehow reformat the EHD to get all of the available space.

 

[isaacmorseMI]

I have the same problem. I interrupted the dish format on a new EHD. Now it has only 500 gb instead of the 1.5 tb available. I want to somehow reformat the EHD to get all of the available space.

Free Download Magic Partition Manager freeware: EaseUS Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy and Partition Recovery Software.