I need help with saving my old drives:
I had several old hard drives, that I wanted to format from ntfs to ext4, when I was still using mint 17 on my primary pc (I'm now using LM 19)
I did some searching and most people seemed to like/recommend Gparted for format and partition tasks, so I decided to use that program.
I felt a bit unsure about the procedure, so I just went with standard settings, and thought everything would be fine, since I didn't have any problems formatting or partitioning when i was still on windows...
But the drives vanished from everywhere on the desktop and also in Gparted after the format, so i couldn't undo anything, since i couldn't select the drives...
I had a couple of drives left, so I went to my last machine with windows 7 on it, and used "Easeus Partition Wizard" to format the remaining drives, but the result were the same: The drives vanished...
There's nothing wrong with my ports, cables or anything else connected to the hard drives and they were all working just fine a couple of days earlier, when they were ntfs and connected to a windows machine, so I have no idea what could be the problem here...
I found a few posts around the web, written by people in a similar situation, but I'm afraid to mess up my drives even further, so i'd rather wait for a reply here.
By the way: I noticed a program called "Disks" in the start menu, on LM 19, and decided to use it to format one of my new 1TB Hybrid drives. It went through without any problems and I can see the drive. HIGHLY recommend other newbies to leave Gparted alone...
Hope my old drives can be saved, most of them are only 250GB drives, but 2 of them are pretty new and are 1TB drives (we are talking about 8 hard drives total!).
Thanks in advance for replying. GREATLY APPRECIATED!
