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USB hard drive seen as two separate drives when is one

I am trying to re-format a LaCie external hard drive that was originally set up where the Mac OS "sees" the drive as two separate volumes. One is 800 GB, the other is 200 GB. I want to format it now so that the OS sees it as a simple HD of 1 TB volume. When I use the Apple Disk Utility, it shows 2 external HD. I do not see any options to completely delete one or combine the two into one.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Feb 4, 2022 9:09 AM

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Posted on Feb 4, 2022 6:28 PM

Click on the View button and select Show all Devices.

Select the one device with the two volumes below it. Erase that.

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Feb 4, 2022 9:55 AM in response to lllaass

I used the Apple Disk Utility to erase both volumes. but it still shows as two separate external physical volumes. Here is a screen shot of the disk utility window. "LaCie" is the 800 GB drive. "LaCie200" is the 200 GB. But both are just the single physical LaCie external hard drive that I want my computer to simply recognize as one hard drive.

USB hard drive seen as two separate drives when is one

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