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TD-W9980 not recognising Seagate Expansion

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7 hours ago, RainbowCoffee said:

 

Minitool Partition Wizard

I would try the CMD method: 

diskpart
list disk
select disk [#]
clean
create partition primary
format fs=fat32 quick

 

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TP Link TD-W9980 router not recognising Seagate Expansion 2TB hard drive volumes (it recognises the existence of the drive), original partition was NTFS tried to repartition part of the drive as FAT32 to no avail. In Windows, the hard drive appears properly, and to ensure the modem had no problems I plugged in a USB drive which was fully recognised.

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What process did you use to repartition the drive in FAT32? This PC? Disk Manager? CMD?

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17 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

What process did you use to repartition the drive in FAT32? This PC? Disk Manager? CMD?

Minitool Partition Wizard

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7 hours ago, RainbowCoffee said:

 

Minitool Partition Wizard

I would try the CMD method: 

diskpart
list disk
select disk [#]
clean
create partition primary
format fs=fat32 quick

 

Guides & Tutorials:

PROXMOX - Rebuilding ZFS RAID rpool After Disk Failure

Mass Deploying Customized Windows 10/11 Installs

Building a GNU/Linux Based Windows Deployment Server

GNU/Linux Installer Server: Installation & Configuration

How to: Use (i)PXE to Install Windows from a Network

Why Memorize IP's When You Can Self-Host DNS Instead?

Ventoy - The USB Multi-Boot Utility!

Introduction to PXE/iPXE Network Boot Featuring FreeBSD & Ubuntu Server

 

Don't see what you need? Check the Full List or *PM me, if I haven't made it I'll add it to the list.

*NOTE: I'll only add it to the list if the request is something I know I can do.

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Sometimes routers are stupid and don't understand GPT partitioning table. Create a new partition table (MBR) and format the disk.

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