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My mother had an old computer that she didn't use since she bought herself a laptop, so I was allowed to take the Hard Drive out of it, because I wanted to use it with my Wii U.
Now, the problem is, I bought a SATA->USB converter to connect it to the console. The HDD was recognised and formatted successfully, but didn't show up in Data Management. I thought "maybe Hard Drives aren't hot-swappable on the Wii U", so I've rebooted it... then the HDD was recognised as a non-Wii U-formatted Hard Drive, again. No matter how many times I formatted with the console, it just wouldn't recognise it as Wii U-formatted, so I gave up.
This was months ago.
Now, I want to revive the old computer as an Android console, but for that, I need the Hard Drive as well, but it's not recognised in Ubuntu, or Windows. They don't do anything when the damn thing is plugged in. How am I supposed to format it back to NTFS like this?
Thanks in advance.
TL;DR: The Wii U fucked up the formatting of my HDD and it's not recognised by a computer, or the console. How do I format it back to NTFS?
HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L080P0 80GB PATA133 HDD[/B]
Now, the problem is, I bought a SATA->USB converter to connect it to the console. The HDD was recognised and formatted successfully, but didn't show up in Data Management. I thought "maybe Hard Drives aren't hot-swappable on the Wii U", so I've rebooted it... then the HDD was recognised as a non-Wii U-formatted Hard Drive, again. No matter how many times I formatted with the console, it just wouldn't recognise it as Wii U-formatted, so I gave up.
This was months ago.
Now, I want to revive the old computer as an Android console, but for that, I need the Hard Drive as well, but it's not recognised in Ubuntu, or Windows. They don't do anything when the damn thing is plugged in. How am I supposed to format it back to NTFS like this?
Thanks in advance.
TL;DR: The Wii U fucked up the formatting of my HDD and it's not recognised by a computer, or the console. How do I format it back to NTFS?
HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L080P0 80GB PATA133 HDD[/B]