To anyone that might be able to help... I've had this external hard drive for
a long time and I haven't been able to access it to store lots of music and
videos on. My computer sees that it is there, but like I had said earlier, I
can't use it. It won't let me see it unless I go to Device Manager. My
computer is getting old on me and it's been places most labtops shouldn't
have gone... Once in Purgatory, and now, it's on Hell's surface. I get the
safely remove hardware icon down by my clock, but I don't want to remove it,
I want to use it. I want it to show up in my drives so I can instantly see
how much space I have left and what not... I went through the Troubleshooter,
tried every possible way that I can think of, the ways the troubleshooter
said, so I'm running out of options. If anyone could think of how to wrestle
this problem and make it like me, drop a line or how ever many it takes...
Thanks
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Good impressions are so hard to find.

Is the external drive partitioned and formatted? You can't use it until it
is.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

"dewman72" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:822354CC-81B6-4B98-B15B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> To anyone that might be able to help... I've had this external hard drive
> for
> a long time and I haven't been able to access it to store lots of music
> and
> videos on. My computer sees that it is there, but like I had said earlier,
> I
> can't use it. It won't let me see it unless I go to Device Manager. My
> computer is getting old on me and it's been places most labtops shouldn't
> have gone... Once in Purgatory, and now, it's on Hell's surface. I get the
> safely remove hardware icon down by my clock, but I don't want to remove
> it,
> I want to use it. I want it to show up in my drives so I can instantly see
> how much space I have left and what not... I went through the
> Troubleshooter,
> tried every possible way that I can think of, the ways the troubleshooter
> said, so I'm running out of options. If anyone could think of how to
> wrestle
> this problem and make it like me, drop a line or how ever many it takes...
> Thanks
> --
> Good impressions are so hard to find.

Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management. Right click the drive
there and Format.

Make sure you select the proper drive before formatting.

"dewman72" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:822354CC-81B6-4B98-B15B-(E-Mail Removed)...
> To anyone that might be able to help... I've had this external hard drive
> for
> a long time and I haven't been able to access it to store lots of music
> and
> videos on. My computer sees that it is there, but like I had said earlier,
> I
> can't use it. It won't let me see it unless I go to Device Manager. My
> computer is getting old on me and it's been places most labtops shouldn't
> have gone... Once in Purgatory, and now, it's on Hell's surface. I get the
> safely remove hardware icon down by my clock, but I don't want to remove
> it,
> I want to use it. I want it to show up in my drives so I can instantly see
> how much space I have left and what not... I went through the
> Troubleshooter,
> tried every possible way that I can think of, the ways the troubleshooter
> said, so I'm running out of options. If anyone could think of how to
> wrestle
> this problem and make it like me, drop a line or how ever many it takes...
> Thanks
> --
> Good impressions are so hard to find.