No Options in Disk Management

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Attached a brand new LaCie Triple Interface Extreme. This disk is formatted
Mac OS Extended (Journaled) at the factory. In Computer Management, Disk
Management shows the drive as Drive 2 and unpartitioned but when I
right-click the box, all options on the menu (format, delete partition,
change drive letter) are greyed out except Properties and Help.

It doesn't show up in My Computer, so I can't format it from there.

PC is a Dell Optiplex 280.

Thanks in advance.

Dave
 
You have a Dell computer yet you acquired a brand new external drive
formatted for Mac's?

Why did you do this? Windows can not see those partitions so therefore they
can't work with them. I would tell you to boot up using a Win98 startup
floppy and use fdisk - but doing that you will not see the external drive at
all.

You "may" be able to boot from the Windows XP CD, and start a new
installation. When you get to the point where you choose where to install
to, see if the external drive is visible. I rightly don't know if you will
even see it here, as the requisite drivers may not have been loaded at this
point. If you can see it, delete the partition. Then exit the install
program.

If that doesn't work, take the drive back to where you got it and "buy?" the
correct type.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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!
 
Wow, harsh, dude. I have an HP computer and I use Maxtor drives. My boss,
however, is not as enlightened as we are.

I think I will advise him to reformat the drive as FAT32 on the Mac, which
presumably the PC will be able to see.

Thanks for your expertise.
 
If you have a Mac available, that would work.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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 boss called LaCie. All that was required was to plug the disk into the
PC--the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard opens and takes care of
everything. Apparently he had ignored the wizard the first time because I was
telling him how to use Computer Management.
 
Thanks for getting back. It will help others who may be in the same boat.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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!
 
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