Initializing/formatting hard drive

[Tommy Perkins]

I recently bought an internal hard drive and connected it
to my laptop via a USB 2.0 enclosure. The hard drive
shows up among the installed devices in device manager
and properties shows that the device is working properly.
Problem is, I can't get it to show up under "My Computer"
or among the options available when I attempt to transfer
files to it. Since it is a plug-and-play device, I didn't
think other steps were necessary. Are there and, if so,
how do I perform them?

 

[news]

I recently bought an internal hard drive and connected it
to my laptop via a USB 2.0 enclosure. The hard drive
shows up among the installed devices in device manager
and properties shows that the device is working properly.
Problem is, I can't get it to show up under "My Computer"
or among the options available when I attempt to transfer
files to it. Since it is a plug-and-play device, I didn't
think other steps were necessary. Are there and, if so,
how do I perform them?

Did you partition the drive? Then format the drive.

 

[Guest]

sorry, I'm a bit of a neophyte. How do you do that?

 

[Guest]

Hi

Right click My Computer/Manage/Disk managemen
Double click disk management, in the right pane, you should find removeable mass storage device
Right click on it and select initialize drive, then assign a letter to the drive, right click to select format and partition the drive

Pete


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sorry, I'm a bit of a neophyte. How do you do that