“Can I format a drive in this enclosure? I have a hard drive that I need to reformat but the machine it is in doesn't have OS on it. I want to place in this enclosure and connect to my windows 8 laptop and reformat the drive. Is this possible with this enclosure.”
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Any computer can format a drive. Right click and find the format option. You might need to google how to use Administrative tools if that does not work. Those are tools in Windows. Easy to use.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes you can, I had to do the same.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes it is possible.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes, you can reformat a drive in this enclosure.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Absolutely, formatted a Seagate under Windows drive manager and another under ext3 Linux.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Absolutely... Quick formats can be done by simply right clicking on the drive icon in the "My Computer" GUI and choosing that option. For more extensive options, go to " Disk Management" through control panel and you will have a wider variety of format and partitioning options.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Absolutely.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes. Just plug it into the window 8 laptop and simply format it. All data on that drive will be wiped. If the hard drive came out of another OEM machine then you might have to do a couple more steps like deleting the protected OEM partition using dos command "Diskpart"
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes absolutely!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes. It's no different than any other external hard drive.
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