XP recognizes 250g, but not seen on my computer?

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Apollo

Newsreader said:
Does the drive need to be formatted to be seen? Did I answere my own
question?
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Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk management, it should ask you if
you want to initialise the drive, answer yes, and then partition /
format. (Available from administrative tools too).
 
M

~misfit~

Apollo said:
Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk management, it should ask you if
you want to initialise the drive, answer yes, and then partition /
format. (Available from administrative tools too).
Click to expand...

You need to be running at least SP1 to recognize a drive that big.
 
A

Apollo

Newsreader said:
Apollo, thanks for the directions!
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You're welcome, btw it makes news threads easier to follow if you type
your reply underneath the text you are replying to instead of the at
top.
 

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