Can external drive be converted back to NTFS?

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Before I realized you couldn’t swap out external hard drives on the Tablo, I formatted two separate hard drives to work with the Tablo. I now know can I can’t just swap them out…and I’d like to convert the drive I’m not using back to a usable drive for my laptop. Can it be converted back to NTFS because my computer won’t recognize the drive. Is there any way around that?

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For sure any tool that low level formats the drive will allow it to be seen again. You just have blank the partition table/type.

I use Linux so all of this quite trivial, but surely it can be easily with Windows? (I’ll wait for others to reply of course)

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In Windows:

  1. Click START and type the following in the searchbox:
    diskmgmt.msc
    Click ENTER
  2. After the disk management window opens, plug in your hard drive. You will see a new disk appear. Right-Click on the partition and select DELETE VOLUME. This will delete the old partition.
  3. Right-Click again on the unallocated partition and select NEW SIMPLE VOLUME.
  4. Follow the prompts and format the disk. After it’s formatted, it will show in MY COMPUTER.
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Thank you!! Your directions made it painless and easy and it worked!! Very grateful!

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