I have bought a 2tb LaCie external drive, porche design. Its not for back up etc, I just want to put all my Movies on that dri

[Usmansadiqkhan]

To wipe off bundled software on LaCie porche design 2tb. and use it as simple storage device.

 

[kenrivers]

Have you tried formatting the drive? Right click on the drive and click format or simply delete the unwanted files from the drive.

 

[Usmansadiqkhan]

Have you tried formatting the drive? Right click on the drive and click format or simply delete the unwanted files from the drive.

In fact the LaCie software offers a format option to allocate FAT or NTFS percentage. I don't want to waste any of the storage area on the software that I absolutely don't need. I just want to use this hard drive like a rewrite dvd , all 2tb of that. So my question is that can I just wipe out the whole software by a clean format ? I'll be using this hard drive to put all my movies in it and then attach it to my Sony BluRay DVD player and watch movies. In case I do format with a right click, as you suggest, should I format as fats or ntfs (whatever that means) for the best storage of videos and playability on the multimedia. Ken, I'm an absolute beginner on this so please forgive my naivety. Thanks .

 

[kenrivers]

You should be able to wipe the software off that drive. You could copy the software to a flah drive before wiping the drive just as a precaution in case you ever need it. Before formatting the drive you need to know what format (file system) the Sony Blu-ray player supports.

 

[James Mason]

Uhhh, you might want to be sure it's not a 2 x 1 TB raid or something though, wiping/formating the drive may break the read and then make the whole thing kinda useless.

You really overspent on a external HDD if all you wanted was portable storage.

 

[Usmansadiqkhan]

You should be able to wipe the software off that drive. You could copy the software to a flah drive before wiping the drive just as a precaution in case you ever need it. Before formatting the drive you need to know what format (file system) the Sony Blu-ray player supports.

Ken, I have formatted the whole drive but now it does not read the video files on it on the sony bluray player. it does on the computer though. I have formatted it to NTFS.

 

[kenrivers]

Did you check to see what format the Blu-ray player will accept? Will it support 2TB drives?

 

[Usmansadiqkhan]

Did you check to see what format the Blu-ray player will accept? Will it support 2TB drives?

Yes it does support 2tb.

 

[kenrivers]

What format are the videos in? Are that format supported by your Blu-ray player?