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    External Hard Drive doesnt show in Explorer

    Hi All,
    I have a WD Elements 1tb External hard drive which I used with my linux sat receiver for recordings and stuff, It was formatted in ext 4 format.
    I have now bought a new one which doesn't need to be powered (uses usb to power it). So I want to format the WD back to ntfs so I can use with windows as a storage drive.
    The problem is When I plugged it into my laptop I went to disk management deleted the partition made active and formatted into ntfs but it doesn't show in windows explorer.
    Is there something else I should be doing or am I doing something totally wrong ? All I want to use it for now is storage of photos and videos stuff like that but useable by windows.

    cheers

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    Windows cant natively read linux partitions, thats why you cant see it in explorer.

    have a look at this.

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    http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-read-ext3ext4-linux-partition-from-windows-7.html
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    So I cant just completely wipe it and start a fresh as a new hard drive ? The things is I don't need it as ext 4 anymore just back to a storage drive for pc.
    Last edited by bushiee; 10-05-13 at 11:41.

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