I used a new 1TB hard drive in my zgemma 2s, initialised it on the box and it was working 100%, decided it was probably too much for what I needed and have replaced it with a 500gb one. The 1TB one will now not work on my PC, it isn't being recognised and I can't format it, anyone any suggestions?
hard drive issue zgemma 2s
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maybe you could point me in the right direction with a link?
having done that and not found the solution to the answer I turned to the forum for help, no need to go off on one pal, just looking some advice. maybe someone else will point me in the right direction but until then ill keep scanning the forum to try and find the soloution.....not looking spoonfed, just trying to find an answer.
saifisma8
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Have you tried deleting volume and then create new simple volume
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I have never confessed to being a genius but I did attend school where my teachers taught me when to use there, their and they're correctly, oh and do rather than does and also that come back is actually two words.
Mounting your USB/HDD as ext4 in your Zgemma will make your device unreadable when you next try and insert them in your computer. You can quickly fix this and most other corrupt USBs by correcting the USB partition.
In windows, open up command prompt with Administrator privileges
1. Go in Start > write “cmd” > right-click the Windows Command Prompt and choose to run it as an Administrator.
2. At the prompt, enter “DISKPART” to launch Microsoft’s disk management utility. It will take a second until it loads and when ready it will read “DISKPART>”.
3. Type in “list disk” to show a list of all disk drives. If your USB key is plugged into your PC, it should be listed here, along with other drives. Note the USB key’s disk number – you can pick it out by looking at the disk capacity.
4. Type “select disk n" (whatever is your USB disk number in place of "n").
5. Type “clean” for the utility to clean the disk, which DiskPart will confirm.
6. Create a new partition by entering “create partition primary”.
7. Choose this partition with “select partition 1", and then mark it as active by typing “active”.
8. Format the key by inputting “format fs=fat32". This should take a few minutes, and DiskPart will display a progress percentage.
9. Lastly, type “assign” to give this USB key a drive letter and “exit” to exit DiskPart.
If the above seems a bit technical google and download HDD guru low level format software and run that.
OR
Go into Disk management GUI on your PC, drop and create volume from there
Right click my computer
Manage
Storage devices.
Pick the drive
Delete volume
New simple volume
Format
If right click on "My Computer" is not your thing then
Control panel
System
Admin tools
Computer Management
In windows, open up command prompt with Administrator privileges
1. Go in Start > write “cmd” > right-click the Windows Command Prompt and choose to run it as an Administrator.
2. At the prompt, enter “DISKPART” to launch Microsoft’s disk management utility. It will take a second until it loads and when ready it will read “DISKPART>”.
3. Type in “list disk” to show a list of all disk drives. If your USB key is plugged into your PC, it should be listed here, along with other drives. Note the USB key’s disk number – you can pick it out by looking at the disk capacity.
4. Type “select disk n" (whatever is your USB disk number in place of "n").
5. Type “clean” for the utility to clean the disk, which DiskPart will confirm.
6. Create a new partition by entering “create partition primary”.
7. Choose this partition with “select partition 1", and then mark it as active by typing “active”.
8. Format the key by inputting “format fs=fat32". This should take a few minutes, and DiskPart will display a progress percentage.
9. Lastly, type “assign” to give this USB key a drive letter and “exit” to exit DiskPart.
If the above seems a bit technical google and download HDD guru low level format software and run that.
OR
Go into Disk management GUI on your PC, drop and create volume from there
Right click my computer
Manage
Storage devices.
Pick the drive
Delete volume
New simple volume
Format
If right click on "My Computer" is not your thing then
Control panel
System
Admin tools
Computer Management
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So your a grammar nazi who can't follow simple guidelines!!!!
Mate stop spamming the thread and grow up would suit you better to get your Zgemma working [emoji23]
Mate, my zgemma is working a treat after gaining really useful tips from good members of this forum (see advice given above) unlike your input which was of no use whatsoever. You are the one coming on to the threat handing out the juvenile abuse pal, obviously your user name speaks volumes as to what your usual input to the forum consists of.
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