Enter a name for your unit in the Name field, and click Delete to start formatting. How to format an external hard drive in Linux? Open the Terminal, and run sudo apt-get install gparted ntfsprogs to ...
My windows install was giving me a lot of grief today, (kept freezing while formatting the hard drive) so I popped in a Mandrake 8.0 disc just to see if the install would complete.<BR><BR>Anyways, now ...