Pls help.... WD external drive 1T cannot be formatted to NTFS

[attyallanlatras]

I attached my WD HDD external drive 1T in my PC to transfer all the files... then I tried to remove it from my PC, but the PC says that I would not be able to safely remove it since windows is still accessing it...

So what I did was turn off the PC and thereafter pulled out the WD HDD, and attached it to my laptop.... now in the laptop, it says that it is inaccessible and I have to reformat it. Now since I was able to transfer all the files in my PC, then I tried to reformat the WD HDD. But it would not under the NTFS format but could be formatted to exFAT file system...

Now, my problem is my Samsung LED TV cannot recognize exFAT file system, only NTFS.... tried several time to format my WD HDD to NTFS format, but no luck so far....

Pls help...

[xwangbu]

try to do a low level format
How to low level format or write zeros (full erase) to a WD hard drive or Solid State drive | WD Support

[oj88]

Open up Disk Management and try to delete and recreate the volume. After that, also from within Disk Management, format the drive to NTFS or to whatever file system you want it to be.

[machine.pistol]

My problem is different. I'm hearing scratching sounds coming from my WD Passport. My laptop can't read the files there. Is there a chance it can work again or for me to recover the files?

[jodski]

You can try

convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

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[badkuk]

My problem is different. I'm hearing scratching sounds coming from my WD Passport. My laptop can't read the files there. Is there a chance it can work again or for me to recover the files?

You can try cloning the drive to a spare HDD. There are Windows based utilities(Acronis True Image; not sure if Norton Ghost is still available), but i'm more familiar with clonezilla . The good old dd command on Linux/Unix also saved my bacon a few times lately.

Regarding the TS's NTFS problem: was the drive originally formatted as NTFS? i think there's a chance that the original volume's volume information, etc. may have gotten corrupted -- i.e. maybe there's no physical damage per se -- that's why Windows is "accessing" it, and why it can't format it(since it can't make sense of the filesystem state).

If you're prepared to nuke it...my favorite method would be to plug it into a Linux machine and running dd to overwrite the partition table info. But i guess you can try using the diskpart utility on Windows. Paki google na lang po, it's pretty easy to use(hence dangerous -- proceed with caution)

[1D4LV]

Open up Disk Management and try to delete and recreate the volume. After that, also from within Disk Management, format the drive to NTFS or to whatever file system you want it to be.

this should work.
remove and re-create the partition and format it to NTFS.
if it cant be detected by Windows Disk Management, try using GParted.

[myas110]

It's the closest related to WD external hard drive.. May problem ako:

Bought a WD My Passport 1TB yesterday. Copied some movies sa hard drive. When I plugged the hard drive sa TV (Samsung) with USB in it, ayaw ma-detect ng TV yung hard drive. Ano problem nito, and how to fix this problem para gumana ito sa TV? Some HDs ng friends ko (other brand, but I guess it's Seagate), gumagana naman sa TV.

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[chronicle]

It's the closest related to WD external hard drive.. May problem ako:

Bought a WD My Passport 1TB yesterday. Copied some movies sa hard drive. When I plugged the hard drive sa TV (Samsung) with USB in it, ayaw ma-detect ng TV yung hard drive. Ano problem nito, and how to fix this problem para gumana ito sa TV? Some HDs ng friends ko (other brand, but I guess it's Seagate), gumagana naman sa TV.

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Na dedetect pa ba ulit yung wd drive sa pc/laptop after plugging it to the tv?

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[papi smith]

Wrong answer, may nababasa naman pala na ibang brands ng ext HDDs