XP doesn't recognize Western Digital 200GB drive

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Graham Nash

I have a Toshiba 5105-S105 satellite laptop. Got a USB 2.0 enclosure,
hooked up a WD2000BB drive to it, and when I plug in the hard disk Win
XP(latest updates) recognizes the harddrive, says it's ready for use
and even shows the harddisk on device manager.

The disk drive is not present in My Computer directory. How do I
format the hard disk that doesn't show up on the directory? I have
already made 4 external drives. What am I doing wrong!
 
"Graham Nash" wrote
I have a Toshiba 5105-S105 satellite laptop. Got a USB 2.0 enclosure,
hooked up a WD2000BB drive to it, and when I plug in the hard disk Win
XP(latest updates) recognizes the harddrive, says it's ready for use
and even shows the harddisk on device manager.

The disk drive is not present in My Computer directory. How do I
format the hard disk that doesn't show up on the directory? I have
already made 4 external drives. What am I doing wrong!
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Hi,
maybe it is not formatted?

1) Right click on My Computer.
2) Select manage from the pop-up box.
3) Click Disk Management.

Can you see your new drive listed, if so you should be able to
partition/format it. Of course apart from this it may be a case of your new
*external* enclosure not be able to support such a large disk?. You would
have to check the documentation to be sure.
 
You also may have to bring it "on line" first. In the disk management
utility, if you see the drive, it might say Off Line. Right click on that
area and choose the on-line option. A newly installed, unformatted drive
will be in off-line mode when XP is booted after the installation. After
it's on line you should be able to partition/format it.
 
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