"Andy G" <georgi66@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a WD MyBook external hard drive, capacity 250GB. It is a USB device
>and needs no drivers, or at least it didn't when connected to my previous
>HP notebook running XP.
>
> When I connect it to my latest HP notebook (Compaq 6720s), it shows up in
> Device Manager, which lists it as working properly. However, there is no
> sign of it in Explorer or in Computer. When I look in Admin Tools under
> Disk Management, it is shown as Disk 1, but with no drive letter. If I
> select it and right click and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths", I
> get an error message saying:
>
> "The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view
> is not up to date. Refresh the view using the Refresh Task. If the
> problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk
> Management, or restart the computer."
>
> As you will guess, neither refreshing nor restarting makes any difference.
> What on earth do I do to perform this apparently simple operation?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Andy
Have you initialized and formatted the external HDD ?.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEyvdhZemSg
rgds
Roberto