Externel hard drive not being recognized

[Guest]

I installed a new 320GB USB hard drive and windows recognized it and said it
was ready to use. It is not shown under "My Computer" or in disc management.
When I go to devise manager it is shown and when I click properties I am told
this device is working properly. Please help!

 

[needlove]

Are the Logical disk manager services enabled? Try starting it and check the
disk management again. If your disk isnt formatted it wont show up in my
computer.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I installed a new 320GB USB hard drive and windows recognized it and
said it was ready to use. It is not shown under "My Computer" or in
disc management. When I go to devise manager it is shown and when I
click properties I am told this device is working properly. Please
help!

Have you partitioned/formatted it?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I installed a new 320GB USB hard drive and windows recognized it and said it
was ready to use. It is not shown under "My Computer" or in disc management.
When I go to devise manager it is shown and when I click properties I am told
this device is working properly. Please help!

Here are some known reasons for external drives not
shown in the Windwos Explorer:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html


Uwe

 

[Guest]

Thanks for responding.
Can't figure out how to formatt it... it says on the box that its formatted
for PC. But how can I formatt it without it being listed on my system?

 

[Guest]

Still no luck! Any more ideas?