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Western Digital My Passport Drive. USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive.

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Why cant I Reformat my passport ultra 2TB?

My passport ultra 2TB hard drive is inaccessible and I am unable to reformat. when in "Disk Management" it shows up as RAW format. I am unable to reformat it to NTFS. Disk Management says reformat failed every time.

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I've given up on disk management. Use diskpart

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-...

I've had to use diskpart on 3 drives recently with 100% success.

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Didn't work. :(

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Time to get medieval on its ash!

http://gparted.org/liveusb.php

If GParted can't get it going, nothing will. If you can't get it working using the instructions in that link, its safe to assume the drive is damaged.

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worked like a charm for me cheers mate im eternally grateful(Toy story little green aliens voice)

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Devon Gelera will be eternally grateful.
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