External Hard Drive

[mishimalik88]

I have an external drive of 2TB. WD Element. I was trying to format it to format it to FAT32. But operation got corrupted and i was unable to see my drive. I deleted it and made new drive by using disk manager of windows. Then i was able to see my drive. But next time as i connected it back, i was again unable to see it. Now need your suggestion to handle this problem.
Thanx

 

[mishimalik88]

Please guide

 

[thenwn]

Hi,

try the following:

■ Press Windows key + R
■ Enter cmd, hit Enter key
■ Enter diskpart, hit Enter key
■ Type list disk and hit Enter key
■ If you see the HDD, type the number after select disk (for example select disk 3), hit Enter key
■ Type clean and hit Enter key
■ Type create partition primary and hit Enter key
■ Type create partition primary and hit Enter key
■ Type select partition 1 and hit Enter key
■ Type format fs=ntfs quick and hit Enter key
■ Type assign and hit Enter key
■ Type exit and hit Enter key

The HDD should get recognized by Windows Explorer again.

Best regards