At present, you can bought 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB and 5TB WD Elements portable drive. The Western Digital Elements is a compact and high-capacity external storage device. please help me to get rid of the “WD Elements 1TB hard cannot format” issue. Many thanks.” so click to format and it says that Windows was unable to complete format. “Hi, I have a WD elements 1TB external HDD, when I plug it in, it installed the drivers but refuses to let me access it and asks me to format.
In which case, chksdk in Windows is your only definitive option.Unable to format 1TB WD Elements hard drive Having said that I've used two Elements external drives formatted NTFS without problems, so I guess the issues in this thread are down to filesystem corruption caused by unclean unmounts. This, of course, will lose you any data on the drive. This can be solved by using Gparted to create a new partition table and then a new partition. One other thing to say: if what some posters in other threads are saying is correct, there are some WD Elements drives shipping with some oddity with the formatting which is causing problems. I'm surprised an earlier poster managed to fix the problem with ntfsfix alone. So you probably need to repair that filesystem with chkdsk from Windows. You may run ntfsfix on an NTFS volume if you think it was damaged by Windows or some other way and it cannot be mounted. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows. ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. Ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems.
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