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Excellent, thanks.<br />
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Do you know if after re-formatting the drive can be used for any computer ?
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Excellent, thanks.

Do you know if after re-formatting the drive can be used for any computer ?

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Yes, unlike the WD Externals you can use all the available space but you'll probably want to partition the drive as NTFS.
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Yes, unlike the WD Externals you can use all the available space but you'll probably want to partition the drive as NTFS.

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Help me understand - why partition the drive as NTFS ?
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Help me understand - why partition the drive as NTFS ?

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My mistake - you did say &quot;any computer&quot;.<br />
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What format were you planning to use?<br />
Which operating systems were you intending to connect the drive to?
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My mistake - you did say "any computer".

What format were you planning to use?
Which operating systems were you intending to connect the drive to?

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Yes, any computer.<br />
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Presumably NTFS.<br />
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Windows 7 64-bit<br />
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(cheers)
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Yes, any computer.

Presumably NTFS.

Windows 7 64-bit

(cheers)

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If you are going to stick with Windows 7 machines then it may be more efficient for you to format the drive as GPT but this might leave you with a problem if you ever need to connect it to a Windows XP system.<br />
See: <a href="https://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27760" rel="ugc">https://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27760</a><br />
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This is really a legacy problem with the limitation on NTFS w.hich can address a maximum partition of 2.2TB.
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If you are going to stick with Windows 7 machines then it may be more efficient for you to format the drive as GPT but this might leave you with a problem if you ever need to connect it to a Windows XP system.
See: https://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27760 [https://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27760]

This is really a legacy problem with the limitation on NTFS w.hich can address a maximum partition of 2.2TB.

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What is GPT? Specific to Win7 o/s?
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It's another way of formatting a drive where the capacity exceeds what NTFS can handle<br />
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525" rel="ugc nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525</a><br />
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It's available in Vista and Win 7 and is best supported in the 64-bit versions.
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It's another way of formatting a drive where the capacity exceeds what NTFS can handle
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525]

It's available in Vista and Win 7 and is best supported in the 64-bit versions.

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Brilliant, thanks ! Very useful solution.
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Brilliant, thanks ! Very useful solution.

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I have a:<br />
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Iomega Prestige External Hard Drive 3TB<br />
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How to remove iomega virtual cd? <br />
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Even if I delete the virtual drive in Device Manager, when I reconnect the drive, it re-creates it again.<br />
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Thanks
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I have a:

Iomega Prestige External Hard Drive 3TB

How to remove iomega virtual cd? 

Even if I delete the virtual drive in Device Manager, when I reconnect the drive, it re-creates it again.

Thanks

How to remove iomega virtual cd?

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