hey what's going on guys tonight's video
we are going to be fixing a read-only
hard drive and the reason I'm making
this video is because once I plugged in
a 2 terabyte Western Digital hard drive
well the drivers loaded up just fine
we'll go ahead and take a look at that
real quickly here as you can see I
plugged in an HDD 10:21 Western Digital
2.0 which is a 2 terabyte hard drive now
let me show you exactly what's
transpiring here so all the drivers
downloaded just fine etc well the only
problem here is I come over here to my
little Windows symbol let's go ahead and
take a look real quick we'll come up
here at computer and it does not show up
now this is a different one and I have
another video how to really get pretty
detailed into a primary partition if
your hard drive is not showing up so if
this video does not help you you might
want to take a look at that other video
I have for another hard drive that was
not showing up so real quickly here let
me just get to the steps here try to
make this video short so we're going to
come down here to our symbol one more
time
we're going to hit that now we're going
to go to control panel click that
alright let's go ahead and get that nice
and big so we can see what's going on
now what you want to do is make your way
over to Administrative Tools ok so it's
going to be in your computer settings
control panel Administrative Tools let's
click that ok now we come to this area
right here we want to go ahead and go to
computer management computer management
we're going to go ahead and actually
double click that sorry alright now once
we've double click that and we're in
computer management you want to make
your way over to underneath storage is
going to be Disk Management if you don't
see disk management click this little
arrow right here underneath storage and
you're going to come to Disk Management
double click that and it will take a few
seconds to load here while we're
connecting to the virtual disk loading
disk in read-only now it says read-only
now this is really confusing so we're
gonna have to go to step further we're
going to kind of have to hack into our
Windows system here and so what we're
going to do come down here to the
windows button again
you're going to hit this right here and
what you want to do is you want to go to
in the search bar right here you want to
go ahead and write in disk1 a second if
it doesn't pop up right away and you'll
see diskpart now go ahead and left-click
that just one time this will pop up
right here and now we have a disk part
right here what we want to do is we want
to type in list list space disk list
space disk hit enter on your keyboard
and now these are going to show up right
here now okay now it's disk three is
online and here is our two terabyte hard
drive right here okay so now what we
want to do now that we see this here
okay and again keep your computer
management page open so you know exactly
which one it is again disk three and I
know that that's the biggest hard drive
I have so that is the two terabyte one
okay now we're going to go ahead and
choose this one here okay guys so now
what we want to do here is we want to go
ahead and type out select SEL ect disk
three okay now hit enter all right guys
now after we push enter we see that disk
three is now the selected disk so right
now down here after this disk part here
let's go ahead and type in attributes a
tt our I B you tes space disk K space
clear C le AR and read only one word are
e ad n ly so attributes disk clear
randomly alright now we hit enter disk
attributes cleared successfully alright
guys now let's go ahead and put exit
exit4
all right so we just exit out of that
okay guys now after we did that we came
back here we exited out of this part and
look at now our disk three is now back
online
it does not say read-only it still says
unallocated but let's go ahead and see
if we can fix that and but first we're
going to check to see if it's still here
nope not there yet okay guys so now what
we're going to do here is we're going to
help hover right over this we're going
to right-click that and we're going to
create new simple volume right here
we're going to come over here to wizard
again we're going to start this up
keep F there alright we'll keep all this
the same and we'll go ahead and finish
up alrighty guys yes so this has
officially done it so guys that was
unbelievable okay so it formatted and
now it says a primary partition right
here guys I'm really excited about that
okay guys before I let you go I did have
one little problem formatting my two
terabyte hard drive that we've been
working on here so before I let you go
if you do run into this problem here
this should help you now as we see up
here okay we're on line it's healthy its
primary partition it's our drive F that
we've been working on exactly okay so
what we want to do up here this is only
if you're having trouble formatting I'm
trying to format it so you right-click
it and if you try to format it it'll
come up you know formatting not
successful okay guys so I'm having
trouble formatting like I've just
discussed here so what we're going to do
here instead of the file system in TFS
we're going to go ahead and drop down
and do a X fat okay and then we're going
to try to start the and just make sure
that you're willing to say ok to this
because it will erase everything on the
hard drive so let's hit OK and we'll
just wait a little while till we find
out what's going on with this format ok
wonderful guys it formatted so again if
you are having trouble formatting in in
a NTFS ok for instance look at my ok my
F Drive is now e^x fat and look at my my
book is fat32 so again guys mess around
with your settings if you're having
format issue errors come up again with
mine it's going to be different than
yours so if you're having formatting
issues guys mess around with file system
that they give you and go ahead and
whatever one they choose for allocation
unit size keep that one and hit OK and
we're good to go I'm going to go ahead
and hit format ok alrighty
looking good I'm going to close out of
I'm going to close out of this because
it's already formatted now what we're
going to do is we're going to do the
final check guys all right let's go
ahead and keep that open for right now
let's come down here to the start button
here come up here to computer and
beautiful guys here it is right here
wonderful
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