I dont know what is happening with my external drive please help noob here

[Guest]

I have an old toshiba 1tb-ish external hard drive. I cant format it for some reason and all the tips on the forum doesnt help. Then I accidentally pushed a few buttons at the disk management and my 1tb-ish HD is now only 37gb without any unallocated space. Thanks and sorry for being a noob.

Tried low level format using HDDGuru as suggested but no good..

 

[Ethanh100]

delete all the partitions in disk management for that drive and it will make 1tb of unallocated space. Then right click on that and make a new volume and format as NTFS.

 

[BadBoyGreek]

If repartitioning / reformatting from Disk Management doesn't help, you may need to run a low level format to reset the drive. There are plenty of guides online, just Google how to perform a low level format.

 

[Guest]

thats what i thought.. just updated my post with some pics.. thanks for the reply

 

[Guest]

I'll try the low level format.. thanks for the suggestion

 

[Guest]

Good day, i tried low level format using HDDGuru as suggested by toshiba forum and it didnt work for me. still stuck with 37gb. i remember deleting partitions when i destroyed my HDD due to "format cannot be completed"

 

[gallowglass1976]

Look for an updated firmware flash for the drive... Perhaps try reflashing firmware if none newer?