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Q: Windows unable to format hard drive

Hello, I need your help here! Do you receive the same error message saying: "Windows is unable to complete the format" while you are trying to format a computer external hard drive on your computer? Honestly, my dell computer hard drive recently just asked to format when it was used on my Windows 7 computer. However, when I click Yes to format this drive with my lost drive documents and files, windows just says windows was unable to complete to format? Honestly, I have used Google to search for the related windows unable to complete the format error problems and also am wondering to select a formatting program? Do you have any recommendation? Is such software helpful for my case? Thanks for any suggestion here!

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 8.3

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 1:19 AM

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  • by JAYT3CH,

    JAYT3CH JAYT3CH Sep 19, 2016 1:28 AM in response to VonConer0
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    Sep 19, 2016 1:28 AM in response to VonConer0

    Hi there,

     

    If you have a mac you can use a pre-installed program called disk utility. Connect your external HDD to the mac and search for an application called disk utility, in disk utility there should be an option to erase the external HDD. It might come up with a similar error to what you had before but it's definitely worth a try. Let me know if this worked for you.

     

    Thanks