Need some advice...

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Nick

When I plug up my 160gig Seagate external USB drive , it pops up and says
it's installing drivers for the following:
 
New drive?

After the drive has been detected, you have to use disk management to create
a partition and format said partition. Then the drive will be noticed and
will be available for use.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I believe he said it doesn't show up in disk management.

Can you verify if the drive works in another machine?
 
The Seagate external drives I use come without any partitions on them. It is
up to the user to create/format said partition. They also tell me I may have
to reboot to use the drive. After a reboot I am able to create and format a
partition using Disk Management.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
The Seagate external drives I use come without any partitions on them. It is
up to the user to create/format said partition. They also tell me I may have
to reboot to use the drive. After a reboot I am able to create and format a
partition using Disk Management.
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The Maxtor and LaCie external drives I use came fully formatted,
(albiet HFS+). :-)
 
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