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    asus a6f series problem with hard drive.

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ele.sal, Oct 13, 2011.

  1. ele.sal

    ele.sal Newbie

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    Hello, I dont know if I am posting in the right spot.... but I have an old asus laptop. last year my windows crashed, and instead of formating the fujitsu hard disk, I bought a new one and installed everything over again. Then I decide to use my old hard disk as an external. My big problem is, is that there a fat partition and ntfs partition. when I try to erase whats on the ntfs partition it doesnt let me, and this results in a lot of space that i cant use!!!


    What should I do?? I am afraid to experiment by myself, cause I am scared that i might erase something on my pc. PLLLLeeeeassssee someone help :confused: :confused:
     
    ele.sal, Oct 13, 2011
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Welcome to the forum! Sorry you're having problems, but I think I might be able to get you going.

    The FAT partition is probably Asus' recovery partition, and should be small enough that you can leave it alone - not worth the effort of getting a partition manager and merging it with the other one (and you can't really do that easily because of the FAT/NTFS discrepancy).

    When you say it won't let you erase data on the NTFS, are you saying it won't allow you to delete individual files/folders from Windows Explorer or it won't let you erase it via reformat? No matter, here's what should probably solve your problem:

    If you're still running XP on your A6, connect your external drive, go into Start menu-Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Disk Management (I think I've got that sequence right), and then scroll down and select the NTFS partition on the external drive via R-click, select Format, and then Quick Format in NTFS. This should reformat the partition and blank it out for you.

    Let us know how it goes - and if my suggestion doesn't work, post back with exactly what you're doing and what the OS is telling you.
     
    ClearSkies, Oct 14, 2011
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