Hello,
I have an external USB - FIrewire 800 Lacie Big Disk 320 GB drive that shows most of it as used space of which I can not get back even through I have formatted the drive over and over, both quick and low level. Everytime I do a quick format, I right mouse click and it shows 73 GB USED and the 230 GB as FREE. When I do a low level format it shows 302 GB used and about 3 GB FREE.
I contacted Lacie tech support. They had me do this:
Go to DOS prompt
enter DISKPART
enter SELECT DISK XX
enter CLEAN
close DOS prompt
go to DISK MANAGEMENT
reinitialize and create a primary partition
format
I did the above and the same things happens. The low level format goes too fast, just a couple minutes and it is done which is cleary too fast for 320 GB drive.
Lacie told me to send the drive back under warranty, but lucky me I am 17 days past warranty so it is not covered. I have $400 drive that does not work. I was hoping someone else had come across this and had a fix.
Thanks
I have an external USB - FIrewire 800 Lacie Big Disk 320 GB drive that shows most of it as used space of which I can not get back even through I have formatted the drive over and over, both quick and low level. Everytime I do a quick format, I right mouse click and it shows 73 GB USED and the 230 GB as FREE. When I do a low level format it shows 302 GB used and about 3 GB FREE.
I contacted Lacie tech support. They had me do this:
Go to DOS prompt
enter DISKPART
enter SELECT DISK XX
enter CLEAN
close DOS prompt
go to DISK MANAGEMENT
reinitialize and create a primary partition
format
I did the above and the same things happens. The low level format goes too fast, just a couple minutes and it is done which is cleary too fast for 320 GB drive.
Lacie told me to send the drive back under warranty, but lucky me I am 17 days past warranty so it is not covered. I have $400 drive that does not work. I was hoping someone else had come across this and had a fix.
Thanks