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formatting an external hardrive

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by ghstwht8

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I accidentally deleted the partition of an external hardrive,,is there anyway to add a partition back onto the harddrive? i was reformatting the harddrive,and didnt realize when it asked me "if i was sure i wanted to do this" that it wouldnt be accsesible to me anymore...

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by slayer_

Assuming your running XP (might work in Vista)

Right click My Computer, choose "Manage".
expande "storage", then select disk management.

Now on the right displays all your HDD's.

Select your removable drive in the list. Right click it and select New Partition.

You can also format the drive from this screen if you want to.

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