Using HD n Laptop

[walf1888]

Hi.

I now have no need for my external HD in my zgemma. Is there a way I can reformat it to use on my laptop?

 

[Willo3092]

If you just plug it into the laptop it should come up with a message 'This drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?'
Just click yes and select NTFS.

 

[Sparkrite]

Hi.

I now have no need for my external HD in my zgemma. Is there a way I can reformat it to use on my laptop?

Yes there is.
Again another poster, frugal with information, however notwithstanding this, assuming it is a Windows based laptop then go into disk management and you should see your USB HDD listed, so select it and format it as NTFS or Fat 32 so Windows can work with with it.
If your laptop is Mac based then unfortunately I cannot help as I have no experience with them.

 

[siilver]

If you do fat32 you won't be able to have large files bigger than 3gb is it?

 

[Sparkrite]

If you do fat32 you won't be able to have large files bigger than 3gb is it?

4GB is the usual @siilver

 

[walf1888]

Yes there is.
Again another poster, frugal with information, however notwithstanding this, assuming it is a Windows based laptop then go into disk management and you should see your USB HDD listed, so select it and format it as NTFS or Fat 32 so Windows can work with with it.
If your laptop is Mac based then unfortunately I cannot help as I have no experience with them.

 

[walf1888]

can see the hdd in disk management on xp but cant see an option to format to either NTFS or FAt 32?

 

[Willo3092]

Right click on the drive in 'My Computer' - there should be a format option.

 

[walf1888]

Right click on the drive in 'My Computer' - there should be a format option.

 

[walf1888]

the drive doesnt shoiw in my computer.

 

[Willo3092]

Do you have Administrative Tools > Disk Management in the start menu?
You can do it from there.

Failing that, there are some instructions here on how to download and use Partition Wizard:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6hbvc2kj88qwdrr/Formatting Drives.pdf?dl=0

 

[walf1888]

I can see the drive in disk management but where is the option to format?

 

[Willo3092]

I haven't used it for years. From memory 'right click' on the drive I think.

 

[Andy Mcd]

Hi

What your needing to do is

Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\ Disk Management

Then Once in there you click on the drive it will show as disk 0 or disk 1 right click on it and format

once thats done it will work fine :)

 

[Sparkrite]

I can see the drive in disk management but where is the option to format?

Select the drive, right click and select "Format" .