hard drive formating error " theres not enough space on the drive to complete this operation"

alexdcopsey

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i have a 2TB Seagate firecuda drive that was partitioned by the xbox one for extra storage, but due to not using it as much i decided to use it for a shared network drive, problem is after deleting all the partitions im only left with 2 but only 107.54GB is able to be formated. the error im getting is that theres not enough space to format 1.7TB worth of space.
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Diskpart utility may help you, run it, do a "list disk" command. Note which disk is the one you want to wipe, then do a "select disk X" to select it, then "clean" command. That will wipe all partitions off the disk. When you go to disk management you should see a blank disk that needs a new partition created. If it does not work even then, you may have some issue with it physically. Run Seatools and check it for errors.
Diskpart utility may help you, run it, do a "list disk" command. Note which disk is the one you want to wipe, then do a "select disk X" to select it, then "clean" command. That will wipe all partitions off the disk. When you go to disk management you should see a blank disk that needs a new partition created. If it does not work even then, you may have some issue with it physically. Run Seatools and check it for errors.
 
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