External hard drive

[Guest]

I have purchased and set up up a Maxtor 3200 external hard drive. Device
manager says it's set up and working properly. I tryed and can copy over a
file to the new drive. I bought this to have the protection of auto file back
up from pc to external hard drive, for file protection in the event of hard
disk failure or file loss. Can anyone help me, or tell me how to set this up
in windows xp. It came with no drivers or instructions other than to say it
is plug and play. Do I need drivers and software, or does xp already have the
required operation facilities? Thanks in anticipation!

 

[Steve Parry]

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I have purchased and set up up a Maxtor 3200 external hard drive.
Device manager says it's set up and working properly. I tryed and can
copy over a file to the new drive. I bought this to have the
protection of auto file back up from pc to external hard drive, for
file protection in the event of hard disk failure or file loss. Can
anyone help me, or tell me how to set this up in windows xp. It came
with no drivers or instructions other than to say it is plug and
play. Do I need drivers and software, or does xp already have the
required operation facilities? Thanks in anticipation!

Have you formatted it or enabled it by alocating it with a drive letter in

Start
Run
type
diskmgmt.msc
click OK

 

[Brian A.]

I have purchased and set up up a Maxtor 3200 external hard drive. Device
manager says it's set up and working properly. I tryed and can copy over a
file to the new drive. I bought this to have the protection of auto file back
up from pc to external hard drive, for file protection in the event of hard
disk failure or file loss. Can anyone help me, or tell me how to set this up
in windows xp. It came with no drivers or instructions other than to say it
is plug and play. Do I need drivers and software, or does xp already have the
required operation facilities? Thanks in anticipation!

Read them carefully, especially steps 2 and 3, Users Guise - Windows
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/documentation/manuals/ps3200_users_guide.pdf

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