I cannot delete/reformat an external drive!
I have a 4tb external drive, that has 1.8tb that cannot be deleted, seen, or reformatted. Can anyone advise how I can completely reformat this drive? Appreciated.
I have a 4tb external drive, that has 1.8tb that cannot be deleted, seen, or reformatted. Can anyone advise how I can completely reformat this drive? Appreciated.
From Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices
initialize the parent drive—If you can not format the parent drive then your drive has failed.
About Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Erase a volume using Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
I don't believe macOS can handle more than 2TB on a FAT32 formatted drive.
I may be wrong, but that is what I remember.
Format the drive using a modern file system format.
I cannot delete/reformat an external drive!