It should be hooked up by USB cable to the TV first and the TV should format the device, if appropriate. Follow procedure in your TV's manual.
SOURCE: Formated my external seagate hard drive
Put in another pc ur hdd and format it and put back on ur pc...If u have another pc with same motherboard and with same chipset it will work fine but if u dont have same motherboard it's not big problem after u have formated in another pc but it back on ur pc and if u see bluescreen just repair ( reinstall and it will work fine )
SOURCE: Storage and Media - Hard Drive External
Here is a link to Seagate's website Download area. All manuals should be available for download from there: MANUAL
SOURCE: my computer does not see my external hard dive
Go to this webpage (Seagate) http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/ and choose from the SeaTools and FreeAgent Drivers that are appropriate for your OS and particular model. Formatting the harddrive should not have caused this problem of not being connected, but it is possible there was a piece of software that communicated with the computer that was removed via the format.
SOURCE: how to format IDE hard drive?
This drive is an IDE drive. The jumpers can be set on it to make it a slave.
Once set as a slave, you can identify the drive letter given to this drive and format it either at a command prompt: C:> format [drive:] /s (to make it bootable) or no /s to just format it.- OR within Windows: right click on the drive letter and select format.
SOURCE: why i cant format my seagate 500gb potable hard
I am having the exact problem with my seagate portable expansion external hard drive 500GB. Only difference is, i just bought mine today and when i plugged it, it displayed. I copied files on to it but these files and folders just disappeared on their own and i tried formatting it but it won't format with any file system. Now i cant access the drive and i can't format it.
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