USB devices diplay

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I'm wanting to reformat a USB external drive. I have just installed the
64bit Home Premium version of Vista on a newly built system and I guess I'm
just going to have to ask some questions until I learn some things on this
version.

I want to use a USB external drive that currently is formatted in Linux.
When I plug it in and go to 'computer', it shows Devices with Removeable
Storage (3) and physically shows three devices; Drive D: my master DVD drive,
Drive E: my slave DVD drive, and Drive F. However, when I right click on
drive F, and then cklick on Properties>Hardware, it lists both of my DVD
drives, my printer, my external drive, and both of my hard drives.

When I click on Start>Computer....Can I make the system display all devices
individually so that I can simply click on each one? Thanks
 
Re: USB devices diplay

The problem may be the enclosure. You can always open the
enclosure and remove the hard drive temporarily, connect it
to your computer internally, or possibly run cables from
your computer. You should then be able to delete all the
Linux partitions, repartition as desired and then format the
drive.

Gary B wrote:
> I'm wanting to reformat a USB external drive. I have just installed the
> 64bit Home Premium version of Vista on a newly built system and I guess I'm
> just going to have to ask some questions until I learn some things on this
> version.
>
> I want to use a USB external drive that currently is formatted in Linux.
> When I plug it in and go to 'computer', it shows Devices with Removeable
> Storage (3) and physically shows three devices; Drive D: my master DVD drive,
> Drive E: my slave DVD drive, and Drive F. However, when I right click on
> drive F, and then cklick on Properties>Hardware, it lists both of my DVD
> drives, my printer, my external drive, and both of my hard drives.
>
> When I click on Start>Computer....Can I make the system display all devices
> individually so that I can simply click on each one? Thanks
 
Re: USB devices diplay

Have you checked disk management? What are your options when you right
click on the drive?

"Gary B" <GaryB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A678B61-E7A4-45CD-AC61-0DE8F7B793F5@microsoft.com...
> I'm wanting to reformat a USB external drive. I have just installed the
> 64bit Home Premium version of Vista on a newly built system and I guess
> I'm
> just going to have to ask some questions until I learn some things on this
> version.
>
> I want to use a USB external drive that currently is formatted in Linux.
> When I plug it in and go to 'computer', it shows Devices with Removeable
> Storage (3) and physically shows three devices; Drive D: my master DVD
> drive,
> Drive E: my slave DVD drive, and Drive F. However, when I right click on
> drive F, and then cklick on Properties>Hardware, it lists both of my DVD
> drives, my printer, my external drive, and both of my hard drives.
>
> When I click on Start>Computer....Can I make the system display all
> devices
> individually so that I can simply click on each one? Thanks
 
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