I have an external drive (5TB) that I reformatted but it's only showing me a portion of the disc.
I did not create a partition.
The disc was in a thunderbolt enclosure, but I reformatted it in a FireWire toaster.
I tried erasing it several times but I can only see 600 GB of the disc.
Tony Reidsma wrote:
Thanks for your reply. That's what I just did again, but still can't access the whole disc.
See attached. When I click erase, it will only allow access to a portion of the whole disc
If you can not format the drive, it is indicative of a failed drive or failed enclosure or failed controller (bridge board.)
If you can pull the drive and test by installing into a different enclosure.
Tony Reidsma wrote:
Thanks for your reply. That's what I just did again, but still can't access the whole disc.
See attached. When I click erase, it will only allow access to a portion of the whole disc
If you can not format the drive, it is indicative of a failed drive or failed enclosure or failed controller (bridge board.)
If you can pull the drive and test by installing into a different enclosure.
Thanks for your reply. That's what I just did again, but still can't access the whole disc.
See attached. When I click erase, it will only allow access to a portion of the whole disc.
Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices
you need to format the parent drive not the child.
DUDE!
I tried one more enclosure and it worked!
Thanks!
Tony Reidsma wrote:
DUDE!
I tried one more enclosure and it worked!
Thanks!
Good computing Tony Reidsma ! Glad this solved your problem.
Reformatted disc but can't see whole thing
