Trying to format a WD My Book 6TD hard drive.
I have just tried to format a WD My Book 6TD hard drive. I have tried to erase and partition the disc as suggested in other responses but I get - in both cases - the message back "Partition (or erase) failed - couldn't unmount disc." Please could anyone help
Did you plug in the WD drive and then launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities)? That way, it should show up in the left column of DU; you need to highlight the top most entry for it, most likely something like WDxxx. That should then show the Partition tab in the main window.
Or, first try the erase tab to see if you can do that - WD includes some unnecessary and sometimes not really compatible software with their drives (even my OWC does - I just erase it, format, and then I'm ready to sue it).
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Issue:
On a Virtual Machine with a secondary VHDX attached, I cannot manage (bring online, initialize, partition, format, or write to) the VHDX hard drive once it has "Enable Virtual Hard Disk Sharing (VHD Sharing)" enabled.
Questions:
Should I be able to manage (bring online, initialize, partition, format, and write to) a VHDX hard drive once it has VHD Sharing enabled? If I should be able to manage it, what am I missing?
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The VHDX is referenced either by the CSV name C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\TEST1.VHDX
or a Shared Folder name
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<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-03-03T19:39:18.000000000Z" />
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<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer> Server1.Domain.local </Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>8007045D@02070008</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
AND
Log Name: System
Source: disk
Date: 3/3/2015 12:16:42 PM
Event ID: 153
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Server1.Domain.local
Description:
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
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<Provider Name="disk" />
<EventID Qualifiers="32772">153</EventID>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
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<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Server1.Domain.local</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Harddisk1\DR1</Data>
<Data>0x0</Data>
<Data>1</Data>
<Data>\Device\MPIODisk1</Data>
<Binary>0F01040004002C00000000009900048000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020488</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
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I had to buy a Willy Wonka bar and spend a golden ticket to get an answer to this one.
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Thank You
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