How to factory reset a hard drive. Choose either the keep my files or remove. Formatting a second hard drive in windows. Use the usb cable that comes with your external hard drive and plug one end of the cable into your hard.
The web page will now display the default configuration page and a factory default restore button. Then restores the factory lba48 hpa and dco settings. Run aomei partition assistant professional.
This is one of the final steps before selling giving away or trading in your mac. How to reset a hard drive on pc or mac method 1of 4. Its very useful to restore the lost space of any hard drive.
You want to permanently erase all content from your mac and restore it to factory settings. Login to your computer as the administrator. Click the get started button in the reset this pc section.
Select the settings option looks like a gear. Connect your seagate external hard disk drive to a working computer running windows operating system and ensure. Youre changing the format of a disk such as from a pc format fat exfat or ntfs to a mac format apfs or mac os extended.
Extracts the factory capacity. You can reset windows 10 81 and 7 to factory conditions using built in reset features but if you want a stronger and more secure method of wiping your hard drive a good hard drive eraser. In the main interface find out the seagate external hdd right.
Its usually at the bottom left corner. This opens the windows search bar. How to reset an external hard drive step 1.
In the settings window select the update security option. It does everything automatically. Press win s.
Select the recovery option in the left navigation pane. Make sure there is one forward slash after the nas ip address then right click and paste the link that was generated with the factory reset tool after the last forward slash in the address field. A 80gb hard disk may only show and use 40gb of its space.