How do you restore an External Hard Drive back to its factory settings? Is it possible?
Posted by MarioHost Admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 17-03-2011
Tags: Back, drive, external, factory, Hard, possible, restore, settings
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Recently i bought a 640GB silver Seagate FreeAgent. I got it mainly to back up all my data on my Playstation3 and Laptop/PC. I need to back up the data on my Playstation3 because I am sending it to Sony hopefully to get it repaired/replaced because there is something wrong with the fans.
I also discovered that the Playstation3 only recognises USB Storage devices if they are formatted to FAT32 only. When I got my hard drive, it was formatted to NFTS. I then followed an online tutorial on how to convert it to FAT32 using a program called SwissKnife, apparently lots of people use it. So I did it changed it to the FAT32 format (ithink) but then realized that the memory/space of the hard drive had been greatly reduced. it was about 600GB+ but now it is 94GB. lol what the hell???
Now I own an iPod too and know you can restore it to its Factory settings in case something goes wrong or if anything is corrupt and you want to start over. I want to know if there is any way of doing exactly this except on a hard drive which I could do to hopefully get that space back and re-format it to its original type.
I really need help guys please at least try to help me out.
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