Skip this article entirely and instead learn how to do a clean install of Windows. Formatting does not permanently erase the data on the drive. If you want to completely erase the information on the C drive, see No. 5 below: Wipe the Drive Clean With Data Destruction Software. 01.
I bought an 8TB Seagate hard drive from Amazon (BarraCuda Hard Drive 8TB ST8000DM004) and I have plugged it in correctly and it shows up in my disk management as 8tb RAW Healthy (Primary Partition) after a few days of trying and failing. I have read that windows doesn't understand RAW and I need to convert it from RAW to NTSF or exFAT.
Solution. #2. kanarigaming said: I recently just built my second pc. In the past I was succesfully able to format my 4tb in my old build to make it usable, however my new rig has 8tb and will only let me partition off 2gb and wont let me "touch" the unallocated 5tb. I tried looking in my bios for some setting as I have done with my previous
Answer. I just solved this problem for my HP Blackbird PC, and am now able to easily partition and format a new Seagate 2TB internal hard drive from 32-bit Vista that runs on this PC. The solution was to upgrade my Nvidia 680i chipset drivers, available in an update package from Nvidia, not through Microsoft's normal driver and OS updating
1. The Drive Is Write Protected. The disk or storage device you are trying to format might have write protection enabled, preventing any changes or formatting operations. 2. The Drive is Physically Damaged. Physical errors on the disk, such as bad sectors or disk corruption, can prevent Windows from completing the format. 3.
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