Thanks for the quick replies. I’m just wanting to reformat the drive.

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From: wlug-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:wlug-bounces@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Ronnie Collinson
Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2009 11:02 a.m.
To: Waikato Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [wlug] Seagate USB External Hard Drive

You cant format a mounted drive/partition unless your trying to recover the data first, if so using recreating using a partition program may fix it but do that as last resort