Hi has anyone experienced the expansion bay seeing the HDD but cannot format to NTFS

GoHols
GoHols Member Posts: 3 New User
edited February 15 in 2018 Archives
Can see the HDD (Old spare 5 Tb from NAS) in Disk manager, but right click show format menu; however, it is greyed out so will not format?
Any help appreciated.

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  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 31,672 Trailblazer
    Any chance there has been no partition created yet? In Disk Manager is it showing unallocated?
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  • GoHols
    GoHols Member Posts: 3 New User

    Hi Billsey, thanks for response

    Being an NAS HDD in its past there is a partition/s set by the NAS, I think this may be the issue, but I thought the Expansion bay could or would re-format to NTFS.

    Manager allow me to delete a partition but not format.

  • GoHols
    GoHols Member Posts: 3 New User

    Hi Billsey,

    Worked it out, had to delete all partitions then create a simple drive, now have an F:/ with 5 TB.

    Thanks for the hint.

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 31,672 Trailblazer
    Great! A lot of the NAS devices look to the disks like Linux machines, so it's no surprise that the disk wasn't setup for Windows partitions.
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