Guest HOOLIGAN Posted January 11, 2011 Report Posted January 11, 2011 Good afternoon all. I am after some help if possible. I used swissknife to try and get the whole drive into FAT32 (to work with the Vega). After formatting I am left with a FAT32 drive showing half the original size (approx 500gb). So I thought I would go to Windows Format (windows 7) and format the drive again to Ntfs to get things back to normal. When I format I am getting a NTFS drive showing at 500GB. Have tried deleting partition but no joy. Does anyone out there have a suggestion to get things back to normal?. An interesting out come has been that when I used the software at this link http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm (it worked and showed as a full 1TB FAT32 on the PC) I got no show on the Vega. Now that it is showing as 500GB it is showing on the vega. Thanks in advance. Matt.
Guest rvdgeer Posted January 11, 2011 Report Posted January 11, 2011 Good afternoon all. I am after some help if possible. I used swissknife to try and get the whole drive into FAT32 (to work with the Vega). After formatting I am left with a FAT32 drive showing half the original size (approx 500gb). So I thought I would go to Windows Format (windows 7) and format the drive again to Ntfs to get things back to normal. When I format I am getting a NTFS drive showing at 500GB. Have tried deleting partition but no joy. Does anyone out there have a suggestion to get things back to normal?. An interesting out come has been that when I used the software at this link http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm (it worked and showed as a full 1TB FAT32 on the PC) I got no show on the Vega. Now that it is showing as 500GB it is showing on the vega. Thanks in advance. Matt. I have a LaCia Rikiki 500GB (like you seem to have now too :D) and chose to partition it with a 32GB FAT32 partition... The rest is an NTFS partition... I did this using the Windows Disk Manager, but unlike you, I had success with this... What you could try is gParted... If you only have a Windows PC you could use a gParted LiveCD (or USB)... This is pretty straight forward and easy to use, even if you (like me) are a Windows user... Hope this helps...
Guest unholyimp Posted January 11, 2011 Report Posted January 11, 2011 As above use the windows disc manager snap in on the admin tools via the control panel you should see the whole drive and you should se a chunk of unpartitioned drive
Guest HOOLIGAN Posted January 11, 2011 Report Posted January 11, 2011 Disk manager did the job. Thanks guys.
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