Pls help.... WD external drive 1T cannot be formatted to NTFS

[attyallanlatras]

I attached my WD HDD external drive 1T in my PC to transfer all the files... then I tried to remove it from my PC, but the PC says that I would not be able to safely remove it since windows is still accessing it...

So what I did was turn off the PC and thereafter pulled out the WD HDD, and attached it to my laptop.... now in the laptop, it says that it is inaccessible and I have to reformat it. Now since I was able to transfer all the files in my PC, then I tried to reformat the WD HDD. But it would not under the NTFS format but could be formatted to exFAT file system...

Now, my problem is my Samsung LED TV cannot recognize exFAT file system, only NTFS.... tried several time to format my WD HDD to NTFS format, but no luck so far....

Pls help...

[xwangbu]

try to do a low level format
How to low level format or write zeros (full erase) to a WD hard drive or Solid State drive | WD Support

[oj88]

Open up Disk Management and try to delete and recreate the volume. After that, also from within Disk Management, format the drive to NTFS or to whatever file system you want it to be.

[machine.pistol]

My problem is different. I'm hearing scratching sounds coming from my WD Passport. My laptop can't read the files there. Is there a chance it can work again or for me to recover the files?

[jodski]

You can try

convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

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[badkuk]

My problem is different. I'm hearing scratching sounds coming from my WD Passport. My laptop can't read the files there. Is there a chance it can work again or for me to recover the files?

You can try cloning the drive to a spare HDD. There are Windows based utilities(Acronis True Image; not sure if Norton Ghost is still available), but i'm more familiar with clonezilla . The good old dd command on Linux/Unix also saved my bacon a few times lately.

Regarding the TS's NTFS problem: was the drive originally formatted as NTFS? i think there's a chance that the original volume's volume information, etc. may have gotten corrupted -- i.e. maybe there's no physical damage per se -- that's why Windows is "accessing" it, and why it can't format it(since it can't make sense of the filesystem state).

If you're prepared to nuke it...my favorite method would be to plug it into a Linux machine and running dd to overwrite the partition table info. But i guess you can try using the diskpart utility on Windows. Paki google na lang po, it's pretty easy to use(hence dangerous -- proceed with caution)

[1D4LV]

Open up Disk Management and try to delete and recreate the volume. After that, also from within Disk Management, format the drive to NTFS or to whatever file system you want it to be.

this should work.
remove and re-create the partition and format it to NTFS.
if it cant be detected by Windows Disk Management, try using GParted.

[myas110]

It's the closest related to WD external hard drive.. May problem ako:

Bought a WD My Passport 1TB yesterday. Copied some movies sa hard drive. When I plugged the hard drive sa TV (Samsung) with USB in it, ayaw ma-detect ng TV yung hard drive. Ano problem nito, and how to fix this problem para gumana ito sa TV? Some HDs ng friends ko (other brand, but I guess it's Seagate), gumagana naman sa TV.

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[chronicle]

It's the closest related to WD external hard drive.. May problem ako:

Bought a WD My Passport 1TB yesterday. Copied some movies sa hard drive. When I plugged the hard drive sa TV (Samsung) with USB in it, ayaw ma-detect ng TV yung hard drive. Ano problem nito, and how to fix this problem para gumana ito sa TV? Some HDs ng friends ko (other brand, but I guess it's Seagate), gumagana naman sa TV.

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Na dedetect pa ba ulit yung wd drive sa pc/laptop after plugging it to the tv?

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[papi smith]

Wrong answer, may nababasa naman pala na ibang brands ng ext HDDs

[SpinCycle]

Try changing the drive’s partition method to MBR


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[myas110]

Na dedetect pa ba ulit yung wd drive sa pc/laptop after plugging it to the tv?

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Nadedetect naman siya sa laptop after connecting sa USB ng TV.

Any recommended application to format an External HDD na naka NTFS to FAT32?

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[chronicle]

Nadedetect naman siya sa laptop after connecting sa USB ng TV.

Any recommended application to format an External HDD na naka NTFS to FAT32?

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Right click , format. Tapos may dialogue box na lalabas.

May option yan to fat32.

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[Archerfish]

Nadedetect naman siya sa laptop after connecting sa USB ng TV.

Any recommended application to format an External HDD na naka NTFS to FAT32?

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Try to check the brand and go to their website. You should be able to download their utility software like Max Blast for Maxtor.

Take note that there is a certain limitation of FAT32, I think it is the capacity per partition or the capacity to transfer a single file larger than 2 GB.

[myas110]

Try to check the brand and go to their website. You should be able to download their utility software like Max Blast for Maxtor.

Take note that there is a certain limitation of FAT32, I think it is the capacity per partition or the capacity to transfer a single file larger than 2 GB.

What is the meaning of "certain limitation of FAT32... capacity per partition or the capacity to transfer a single file larger than 2 GB"?

Pang partition ba yung Max Blast for Maxtor?

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[12vdc]

First, note that there are three varieties of FAT: FAT12, FAT16, and
FAT32. Many people call FAT16 just FAT, because before FAT32 came out,
FAT16 was the only variety used for hard drives, so just calling it
FAT was sufficient.

FAT12 (hardly used at all anymore) had a maximum volume size of 12mb.
It was used almost exclusively for floppy disks.

FAT16 was used on hard drives (or partitions) up to 4GB, and had a
cluster size that varied from 2kb to 64kb, depending on the size of
the partition. It is almost never used anymore, because almost nobody
has partitions as small as 4GB.

FAT32 took over from FAT16 and has a maximum drive size of 2TB. Its
maximum file size is 4GB, which is why you can't copy a 5GB file to
it. Its cluster size is 4KB up to a partition of 8GB. Above 8GB the
cluster size grows up to 32kb.
NTFS is what almost everyone should be using on their hard drives
today. Its maximum volume size is 2^^64-1, and its maximum file size
is 16 × 1024^^6 bytes (way more than the biggest hard drive available
today). Its cluster size stays at 4kb, regardless of the volume size.

What is the maximum file size FAT, FAT32 & NTFS file systems - Microsoft Community

Similarly, a 32bit computer could only read up to 4GB RAM including the video mem.