Timeline for How to format my external HDD back to as "removable storage"?
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| Jul 8, 2012 at 18:12 | comment | added | Wyzard | That EFI partition is a special partition used for booting from the drive. If you don't plan to boot from it anymore, it's OK to delete, but there's no harm leaving it there. | |
| Jul 8, 2012 at 16:47 | answer | added | Eskiso | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 8, 2012 at 14:30 | comment | added | NReilingh | If Windows 7 thought your external hard drive was removable storage, it was wrong. Likely it was just misinterpreting the EFI or HFS+ partitions. | |
| Jul 8, 2012 at 14:20 | history | asked | GJ. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |