- Nov 26, 2012
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A few months ago my stepbro got a new computer. I helped him build it the previous night, and said id help him when I could to get a fresh windows 10 installed on it.
He was impatient and decided to do it on his own the next day while i was at work.
He took my 1Tb external hard drive that was FULL of movies id collected over 6 YEARS, around 180 full HD movies, and he used my hard drive w/o asking me, as his medium to install windows on, since the new computer he got did not come with an optical drive (something else i told him to consider that he forgot).
He managed to skip over every warning telling idiots that formatting will erase all data. Everything on the drive is erased, and the drive is now formatted as Fat32, only has 32gb of storage capacity, and when I try to format it back to NTFS, i can still only select 32gb of capacity from the drop down menu. It also asks me for allocation size... Assuming he has not bricked my drive, what should i set the allocation size too? i want it to be how it was originally, but I'm thinking if i set it to "default", it will use whatever allocation size 32gb on a fat 32 formatted usb is the default vs the 1Tb NTFS it used to be, if that makes any sense.
Im no genius with computers but holy crap its going to take a lot in me to get over what he did. Took 2 weeks to talk to him again. In the grand scheme of things I know, its not a big deal. But you really have to be a special kind of stupid to be able to follow instructions on formatting correctly BUT "accidentally" ignore all warnings and format someone elses hard drive you know had files and movies on it. He knew it was my movie drive we used it all the time. It took this long just for me to pick the drive up again and try and fix it; despite our relationship being seemingly back to normal, im filling with rage thinking about what he managed to do now that im having to think about it again.
Any help appreciated,
Thank you for your time
He was impatient and decided to do it on his own the next day while i was at work.
He took my 1Tb external hard drive that was FULL of movies id collected over 6 YEARS, around 180 full HD movies, and he used my hard drive w/o asking me, as his medium to install windows on, since the new computer he got did not come with an optical drive (something else i told him to consider that he forgot).
He managed to skip over every warning telling idiots that formatting will erase all data. Everything on the drive is erased, and the drive is now formatted as Fat32, only has 32gb of storage capacity, and when I try to format it back to NTFS, i can still only select 32gb of capacity from the drop down menu. It also asks me for allocation size... Assuming he has not bricked my drive, what should i set the allocation size too? i want it to be how it was originally, but I'm thinking if i set it to "default", it will use whatever allocation size 32gb on a fat 32 formatted usb is the default vs the 1Tb NTFS it used to be, if that makes any sense.
Im no genius with computers but holy crap its going to take a lot in me to get over what he did. Took 2 weeks to talk to him again. In the grand scheme of things I know, its not a big deal. But you really have to be a special kind of stupid to be able to follow instructions on formatting correctly BUT "accidentally" ignore all warnings and format someone elses hard drive you know had files and movies on it. He knew it was my movie drive we used it all the time. It took this long just for me to pick the drive up again and try and fix it; despite our relationship being seemingly back to normal, im filling with rage thinking about what he managed to do now that im having to think about it again.
Any help appreciated,
Thank you for your time
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