NAS Drive now a HDD

Hi all I have a LACIE NAS which Ive never really used properly as a NAS as I would turn it off when not using it and literally just used it to back stuff up once in a while.

so i went to use it recently after about 6 months and it wouldnt turn on and i think there is something wrong with the power supply on it. So i thought Id get a caddy and just use the HDD in it as a big external HDD for back up

However the partitioning on it is all over the place and Im not sure what is best practice so would like some advice. Im not bothered what was on this before

attached is a pic from Mini Tool to show what the partitions look like

I tried to create what looks like partition E in the pic but dont think this has worked properly so happy for someone to advise best practice here

TIA

Bart

Thanks

Didn't understand the windows limitations bit sorry.

So what format should I format the drive as. If it's just for backing up data does it matter if it's fat32 or NTFS. I also wouldn't usually create partitions of its just data but if there is a better practice pls advise.

Also do I need to make the partition/s active etc?

Hi there

@bartjunited

do the following

1) connect the caddy to computer -- I assume it's a USB3 type disk (USB2 also works but of course data transfer is slower) and ensure if there's any settings on caddy for RAID/JBOD (just a bunch of Disks) etc set it to single Disks.

2) in (eng ??) on ?? computer get into cmd (admin mode) and type following commands :

3) diskpart
list disk
select disk xx where xx is in your case the 1.82 TB disk
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs
exit

Now Windows should show you the new 1.82 TB formatted drive -- if you can't see it in Windows explorer / file explore go to administrative tools and you'll probably see it without a letter -- choose assign letter to drive and then you're back in business. The format quick command will probably for that type of HDD only take around 15 secs !!

job done

cheers
jimbo

You genius

That was super easy
Thanks so much

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

@bartjunited

do the following

1) connect the caddy to computer -- I assume it's a USB3 type disk (USB2 also works but of course data transfer is slower) and ensure if there's any settings on caddy for RAID/JBOD (just a bunch of Disks) etc set it to single Disks.

2) in (eng ??) on ?? computer get into cmd (admin mode) and type following commands :

3) diskpart
list disk
select disk xx where xx is in your case the 1.82 TB disk
clean
convert gpt
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs
exit

Now Windows should show you the new 1.82 TB formatted drive -- if you can't see it in Windows explorer / file explore go to administrative tools and you'll probably see it without a letter -- choose assign letter to drive and then you're back in business. The format quick command will probably for that type of HDD only take around 15 secs !!

job done

cheers
jimbo

or just add the command "assign" after "format quick fs=ntfs"