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Zac P
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How to reformat a hard drive in a USB caddy?

I have a old 80GB laptop hard drive i would like to use with a Caddy as a back up drive however when i try to reformat the hard drive from within windows it dosnt let me. Is there a program i can use to wipe and reformat the hard drive within windows or at bios etc?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    As long as the drive is showing up under My Computer, it should be able to be formatted. You will probably need to enter Disk Management and try from there. If it will not format from that program, you will have to try a drive formatting program. Look at download.com to find some free programs to do this.

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