Format external hard drive

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  1. shig

    shig

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    Hey Guys
    Our acer one's wireless failed so I used an old laptop hard drive I was using for storage to create a recovery,that worked fine but I can not work out how I can now format the hard drive so I can it use again for storage.
    I connect it to the acer and I get.. addon boot lostplusfound in folder icons. GPL LAST_CD text docs icons, and rcd-mkiso.sh hdc1_.tar.bz2 and rd-base.img.bz2 .
    I would really appreciate any suggestions .
    Thanks in advance
     
    shig, Sep 14, 2009
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    I use GParted for any work on partitions or formating. It may not be installed by default but it will be in the list of applications available from the repository.
     
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    Hi scotty,
    sorry I dont understrand what you mean. The acer is my wifes and I dont know anything about them.
    Thankyou anyway for your reply.
     
    shig, Sep 14, 2009
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    Hi Scotty
    this is what I get when I connect the hard drive to the acer one, I have tried all the files but cant see what you meant or find an option too format.
     
    shig, Sep 14, 2009
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