Gaslight
Prominent Member
This is probably a very amateur question but I am having trouble formatting a 3.5" HDD
Its a NAS drive, which ended up with problems after a power cut from the recent storm.
I wanted to try and format it to see if I could get it to work before committing to purchasing a new unit. On the NAS it showed as IO errors, and its been stated online to try an external format and then reinsert it 50/50 it may work.
However, I cant seem to delete the partition maps, or change them or anything. I presume it would be advisable to do this before reinserting the drive to begin its RAID rebuild which is automatic on my QNAP.
Any advice would be welcomed!
Its a NAS drive, which ended up with problems after a power cut from the recent storm.
I wanted to try and format it to see if I could get it to work before committing to purchasing a new unit. On the NAS it showed as IO errors, and its been stated online to try an external format and then reinsert it 50/50 it may work.
However, I cant seem to delete the partition maps, or change them or anything. I presume it would be advisable to do this before reinserting the drive to begin its RAID rebuild which is automatic on my QNAP.
Any advice would be welcomed!