Vista - External hard drive problem

Hi guys

I have a lap top with vista! i have connected a usb hard drive to my laptop!
1 problem I can see the hard drive in device manager but not im my computer!

Any ideas on an answer!

Sweet

RW

Is this a new drive? Has it been partitioned and formatted?



"w4lla" <w4lla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:43D9264E-41E6-4BC2-A05B-1A128971918A@microsoft.com...
> Hi guys
>
> I have a lap top with vista! i have connected a usb hard drive to my
> laptop!
> 1 problem I can see the hard drive in device manager but not im my
> computer!
>
> Any ideas on an answer!
>
> Sweet
>
> RW

Has the drive been set as a master? If so and it does not load try the CS
setting. Usually one of those will work and the drive will load, assuming,
of course , it is partitioned, etc as a previous reply suggested.




"w4lla" <w4lla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:43D9264E-41E6-4BC2-A05B-1A128971918A@microsoft.com...
> Hi guys
>
> I have a lap top with vista! i have connected a usb hard drive to my
> laptop!
> 1 problem I can see the hard drive in device manager but not im my
> computer!
>
> Any ideas on an answer!
>
> Sweet
>
> RW

"w4lla" wrote
> Hi guys
>
> I have a lap top with vista! i have connected a usb hard drive to my
> laptop!
> 1 problem I can see the hard drive in device manager but not im my
> computer!
>
> Any ideas on an answer!

Open Disk Management. Is the drive partitioned/formatted and a drive letter
assigned? Right click Computer | Manage | Drive Management in the left
pane.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]