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Advanced format HDD?

JonaChan
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I have a 2tb Toshiba hard drive i snatched out of a Vivant Space Monkey, but it's not even showing up on my computer.

It's a DT01ABA200V hard drive

 

I suspect it has something to do with the little "Advanced format" which might be a file system, or something more deeply rooted like the firmware. 

Is it even possible to format this to NTFS or Fat32?

 

thanks

-Jon

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Make a bootable flash drive and boot into Ubuntu or something and install gparted, then use that to look at the drive.

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Not showing up in BIOS or not showing up in disk management or not showing up in file explorer?

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Try this, works great and it's free.  https://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html

 

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