Why not have Partition Magic format the drive for you? It should see it
as an unformatted drive.
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Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> Having read the consensus reached by C.H., Moose, Joel, Candace, Ken,
> and forgive me if I forget to mention anyone else ... I'm studying how
> to get rid of SmartWare. It's even more clumsy than agent 86: I deleted
> all the folders into which some 10 files were not backed up, but it
> insisted on that there was one, yes only one, which I had deleted but
> remained impossible to back up.
>
> I still don't know how to uninstall Mr. Don Adams, but I'm being warned
> that I will loose these nice features of my WD functionality:
>
> - The capacity gauge is illuminated only if the WD SmartWare software is
> installed and
> running on your computer.
>
> - The power button only works if SmartWare is installed.
> Note: After you power off the drive using the power button, if it remains
> connected to your computer, you need to press the power button again to
> turn it
> back on. If you disconnected the drive after turning it off, when you
> reconnect it
> to your booted-up computer, it automatically powers on.
>
> I can hardly understand what the note means :-(
>
> Hope you people will be there tomorrow January 1st 2010, just in case XP
> doesn't find this nice-looking _MASSIVE_ storage device.
> So far, it always found my Stylus 720 SW, which is anything but massive.
> So I should fear nothing.
>
> More so because I'm sure this gang of geeky photographers will be there,
> at my cry of *help!*.
>
> Happy New Year.
>
> :-)
>
> Fernando.
>
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