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Repartitioning an external HD

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by deskdirect

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I had a power surge to a Dell desktop running XP that wouldn't reboot until I ran checkdisk on it. Now my external hard drive doesn't show in Disk Management as being a partitioned HD. And there doesn't seem to be anyway for me to repartition the drive - the options are grayed out! I don't need to reformat the drive I just need to partition it.

Any suggestions?

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by thumbsup2

The options to repartition are grayed out where? Are you using some piece of software to tell you this?

What operating system? What type of external hard drive setup?

by deskdirect

Our IT guy is out for a three week vacation and I thought I might be able to figure this one out with TechRepublic's help since he raves about you guys all the time.

Just using the Windows Disk Manager where its grayed out in the Action tab.

I am using Windows XP Home and have a Beyond Micro 300 GB external hard drive that I use to save all my work on. My computer hard drive just contains my OS and applications.

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