- HOW TO REFORMAT MY PASSPORT IF CANNOT FIND DRIVE UPDATE
- HOW TO REFORMAT MY PASSPORT IF CANNOT FIND DRIVE SOFTWARE
The backup was working at some point in time because the information was on the external drive however it only lists the backup for approximately 30 days so this has worked since at least April. Every time the 2nd drive is attached the backup fails. I looked at the list of backups a couple of months ago and noticed that it only backs up to one of the drives now. I store the backups at home and I alternate bringing one of them in each day. I was able to set up the second one myself through wbadmin (I am only somewhat compute literate). We use an outside IT company and they setup
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At that time we purchased 2 WD My Passport Ultra 1 TB external hard drives to use as alternating backups. I have a Windows 2012 R2 server that my company bought 2 years ago.
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Once you do that you have removed the OEM partition on the drive. Step6: Type “delete partition override” to get rid of the volume. Here n stands for the volume you want to delete. Step4: Type “list partition” to display all the volumes on the hard drive. Here n stands for the disk you want to work well. Step2: Type “list disk” to display all the disks of your computer. Step1: Hit “Windows Key” + “R” to open the run dialogue box and type “diskpart” and hit “OK” to open a black command prompt window. If you determine to delete OEM partitions, you can make it according to the following way below to do it. But, diskpart have to run in command prompt. In addition, it has some functions partition magician this production cannot run, such as setting dynamic disk, mirrored volumes, etc, and it doesn’t need to restart computer to take effect after setting partition.
HOW TO REFORMAT MY PASSPORT IF CANNOT FIND DRIVE SOFTWARE
in theory, it totally can replace some third-party software such as partition
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It has many functions such as create partition, delete partition, merge (extend) partition, etc. I did as suggested below and now WSE recognizes the disk for backups! Thanks guys! I hope this helps someone else in the future.ĭiskpart is a kind of tool that manages hard disk and partitions. I could not delete the partition until I found out about Diskpart. I had formatted the Drive many times, the hidden OEM partition stayed there, invisible until I looked at it in Disk management. The problem was there was a hidden OEM Partition.
HOW TO REFORMAT MY PASSPORT IF CANNOT FIND DRIVE UPDATE
Update June 2016: I finally got the seagate external to work. I'd tried using the GUI and it also cannot see this Drive. Thank you Grey, I was running the wizard.