SimpleTech 250GB USB2.0 7200 RPM External 250 GB IDE Hard Drive "erase external hard drive" Questions

...need to make sure you tell the program which drive you want to erase..Say the external drive comes up as drive "d"..then you want to tell the drive utility software to erase the "d" ...

3. Right click on your external drive then select format. This will erase all the contents of the external drive. NOTE: DO NOT FORMAT OR ERASE DRIVE C: This the drive of your pc. Hope this helps . .

...solved it myself. Here's how: Open Disk Utilities and select the external hard drive. Select the "Erase" tab. Hit "Erase" at the bottom right. That's all. Just dragged a folder onto it and it

...erase it on purpose. Plug the drive into you laptop (USB cable). Plug power into to the external drive. Turn the drive on. It may take a minute or so but your laptop should recognize the drive. It ...

...erase all data on my external hard drive? depends on the erase you want to do. if you want a simple format just open my computer right click the drive and hit format. select Quick format and then ...

...my toshiba external hard drive for my macbook? If I go to disk utility and erase it, wont it erase the backup software as well? Tony I am having the same problem. Have you solved your problem

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE ELEMENTS POWER D EXTERNAL DRIVE KEEPS COMING UP WITH INTIALIZE RESTORE REPAIR ERASE I CANT FIND THE ICON TO CLICK ONTO CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME your hard drive damages

external drive for use with a Mac? Thank you You can use a pc formatted drive with a mac but to format it as a mac drive go to applications then into utilities then go disk utility. Once opened in the

...external hard drive. Read comments about about erasing files on Iomega external hard drive. After erasing files to work for Mac, will it still work for a PC? It depends on how you formatted the the ...

erase and start over. While the external hard drive is connected to the computer, click on my computer. Find the icon related to your external hard drive. Use the right button of the mouse to bring up