External Drive Problem

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I just bought a new Samsung HD753LJ and placed it in an Antec MX-1 case. At
this stage I do not have my notebook eSATA ExpressCard so I hooked it up
using the USB connection. The device drivers installed fine and it shows up
as working in Device Manager, but it does not show at Start > Computer. I
have rebooted and I get the same issue. If anyone can tell me how I can
access this drive, I would be truely grateful.
 
Try going to Control Panel>System and Maintenance>Administrative
Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management

Then format the drive.

HTH
 
If it only needed formatting, then it would show up as a volume. If there's
data on it that the poster wishes to not lose, then formatting would be
highly inappropriate as they would lose this data.

Disk manager is the right place to be, but formatting would not resolve the
detection issue. It may need to be assigned a drive letter, or possibly be
imported as a foreign disk. It's possible that it may show as a raw volume,
in which case it's likely that the driver being used is faulty.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Hi Rick - I ran diskmgmt.msc and I get a dialog box saying I must initialise
a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it. I take it that this is the
new external drive I have added. I did that using Master Boot Record and it
now shows as 698GB Unallocated. Don't know where the other 50 GB went??? So
I am now formatting it as I type. Hopefully things will be fine from here.
Thanks Rick for your help.
 
Rick set me on the correct path. Yes, I've had to assign a drive letter and
the space turned out to be unallocated so I am currently formatting it. It's
a huge disk and I'm only at 3 percent, but I am hopeful I will have an
operational disk in a few hours.
 
pbl said:
Hi Rick - I ran diskmgmt.msc and I get a dialog box saying I must
initialise a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it. I take it
that this is the new external drive I have added. I did that using
Master Boot Record and it now shows as 698GB Unallocated. Don't know
where the other 50 GB went??? So I am now formatting it as I type.
Hopefully things will be fine from here. Thanks Rick for your help.
Click to expand...
One gigabyte, or GB, equals 1000 megabytes when referring to hard drive
capacity

Your PC calculates one gigabyte as 1,024 megabytes

gls858
 
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