[bealeuk]

Hey Guys,

I'm using a laptop hard drive as an external hard drive for my PC. I have a USB adapter, which is all installed. The problem is I can't access the drive. The FAQ provided suggest formatting the hard drive - which I can't work out how to do with out being able to see it in "My Computer" or it suggests assinging it as a removable storage device in its properties - also an option that I can't find. I've tried to get it working on another computer but still no joy.

I can however see it in "device manager" under disk drives

Please help, its been doing my head in all day-don't worry about suggesting something really obvious, I am fairly computer illiterate!

James

 

[stantley]

Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management, see if the drive shows up in there. If it does right-click on it and choose Format and use NTFS.

 

[JohnWill]

If it's a virgin drive, you may have to first right click on the left and select "Initialize" before you do the partitioning and formatting.

 

[bealeuk]

cheers guys,

I followed your instructions and got it working! I had to create a partion on the drive as there was no option to format. I guess they must mean pretty much the same thing as it works!

Thanks again,

James

 

[JohnWill]

The sequence is, Initialize, Partition, Format.

If it works, you must have made it through the maze.