How To Fix Undetactable External Hard Drive, Format Portable USB Disk Via DOS
Recently a friend of my had this problem with her external hard disk, it appears that the Windows does not recognize her hard disk, two possibility – the hard disk has no file system, meaning to say the disk is not formatted in FAT or NTFS file system. The other possibility is the extremely large size – 2TB.
The Volume Is Too Big For FAT32
In most cases, you won’t be able to format a large 1TB hard disk with the FAT32 file system. If you happened to own a 2TB hard disk and would like to format the file system in FAT32 for future accessibility reasons (It might be impossible to extract data from a NTFS disk), try SwissKnife.
Apart from being faster at formatting your disk compared with Windows OS, SwissKnife allows the creation of a single partition of up to 500GB of FAT32 or NTFS file systems.
Format Hard Disk Via DOS
DOS is still my number one choice when it comes to formatting. For those with a removable hard disk that is not recognizable by Windows because no file system exist, try DOS. First you’ll need to enable USB support via your motherboard BIOS.
When you’re ready, replace the ‘X‘ in ‘format /FS:FAT32 X:‘ with the letter of your external hard drive.
FAT32 vs NTFS
NTFS is much better than FAT32 for a number of reasons, it is more secure (need to enable the security feature) because your data is not retrievable if somebody plug in your hard disk into their computer. It is faster because of the indexing system, and it supports extremely large hard disk. Unless you have sensitive information stored in your hard disk, FAT32 is still my number one choice, for a simple reason – data is retrievable.
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Never Forget To Send An Important Email Attachment With Outlook FAD Addon
Perhaps the most embarrassing thing to occur on a person when it comes to emailing is to forget the attachment. This happened to me not once but quite a number of time. If you use Outlook as your default email client, then Forgotten Attachment Detector is a great, free add-in for Microsoft Outlook that can help you avoid this embarrassing scenario.
This add-in works on Outlook 2007 and 2010, what it does is it scans your email for keywords such as ‘attached’ or ‘enclosed’ or ’see doc’ or more, and if such keywords exist but no files was attached to the email, it will promptly notify you of the mistake.
Like other Forgotten Attachment Detectors on the web, when you send an email FAD checks it for keywords that indicate you’ve forgotten to attach an attachment. If it detects this, it notifies you and gives you a chance to correct any mistakes.
As shown in the screenshot above, you can customize the list of keywords. Personally, I find this tool very useful. This addon is probably a life saver when it comes to corporate image, imagine the impression given by you to your client if the email comes without any files attached. All in all, it is a must have tool for outlook user.
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