Have an HDD that is formatted for linux use. After installation drive is recognized by bios but not disk management or Minitool. How do I format the drive for Windows 10 use?
Thanks
You can use diskpart from the command line.
Here is a sample with some notes as I go along. Please note that in this sample I am formatting a flash drive as I don't want to wipe any of my HDDs at this time.
Code:C:\>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.22621.1 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. On computer: GODZILLA DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 7452 GB 1024 KB * Disk 1 Online 7452 GB 1024 KB * Disk 2 Online 465 GB 1024 KB * Disk 3 Online 465 GB 1024 KB * Disk 4 Online 931 GB 1024 KB * Disk 5 Online 1863 GB 0 B * Disk 6 Online 230 GB 0 B COMMENT: Based upon the sizes of the disks shown above, I know that the disk I want is disk 6. As a result, I run "select disk 6" below. DISKPART> select disk 6 Disk 6 is now the selected disk. COMMENT: The next command below (detail disk), is optional. It simply gives me more info about the selected disk so that I can be sure I have selected the correct disk. DISKPART> detail disk UFD 3.0 Silicon-Power256 USB Device Disk ID: 59189A66 Type : USB Status : Online Path : 0 Target : 0 LUN ID : 0 Location Path : UNAVAILABLE Current Read-only State : No Read-only : No Boot Disk : No Pagefile Disk : No Hibernation File Disk : No Crashdump Disk : No Clustered Disk : No Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 8 H SP-VOL1 FAT32 Removable 2560 MB Healthy Volume 9 I SP-VOL2 NTFS Removable 60 GB Healthy Volume 10 J Unkno Removable 168 GB Healthy COMMENT: Below I run the command "clean". Please be aware that it is not at all unusual to get an error the first time the command is run, just as I get below. If this happens, simply run the command again just as I do below. DISKPART> clean DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified. See the System Event Log for more information. DISKPART> clean DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk. COMMENT: The next command creates a single partition using all space on the disk. DISKPART> create partition primary DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition. COMMENT: The next command is formatting the disk with the NTFS file system. Note that the label="Silicon Power UFD" is optional. You can leave this part off if you don't want a volume label. Use any text you wish for label, up to 31 characters in length for an NTFS volume label. DISKPART> format fs=NTFS quick label="Silicon Power UFD" 100 percent completed DiskPart successfully formatted the volume. COMMENT: The "assign" command will assign the first available drive letter to the volume that you just created. Note that you could also manually specify the drive letter like this: assign letter=X DISKPART> assign DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart... C:\>
Thanks for your response but diskpart will also not recognize the linux HDD.
Any ideas?
Very interesting. Here are some ideas that I have:
1) Make certain that the SATA port to which the drive is connected is enabled in your BIOS (I'm assuming that this is a SATA drive). Some BIOS will allow you to disable individual SATA ports.
2) Make sure that both the SATA and power cable are firmly seated at both ends (at the drive as well as the Motherboard and power supply).
3) If you are using an M.2 NVMe or SATA drive, make certain that it can coexist with a drive on the SATA port that you are using. Again, with some systems, when an M.2 drive is installed it may disable one or more SATA ports. In other words, it becomes a matter of using either the M.2 connector OR the SATA port, not both at the same time.
Let me know if none of that helps!
I found the following table in the user guide for your Gigabyte motherboard:
I did notice that bios recognizes the other drives with the manufacturer name. Like "Seagate Expansion Desk 9401". But the troublesome drive is shown as "Linux File-Stor Gadget0419" with no manufacturer.
Does that shed any light on the issue?
It's not ringing any bells for me.
Question: If you go into diskpart and simply run the command "list disk", how many disks does it show? How many disks, including this disk and any M.2 disks, are physically installed in the system?
Would it be possible to snap a picture of the drives that you see in the BIOS, maybe using your phone camera, as well as grabbing a screenshot of the diskpart "list disk" output?
Actually, one more thought:
In your BIOS, make sure that the drive is configured to use AHCI, and not RAID.
Now bios won't find the drive so there must be a bigger issue. I'll return the drive. Thanks for everything.
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