External Hard Drive Problems

MGmalson · 04-25-2005, 10:57 AM

I have an 80GB external hard drive on my computer, the computer recognizes it, but it wont assign it a letter and allow me to access it in my computer. also it doesnt have any error messages, anyone have any suggestions

**norin** · 04-25-2005, 11:28 AM

i have replied to your other thread and will request the other one be deleted as it is a double post in two seperate threads.

my response was thus:

Quote:

simple fix:

set the external HDD to MASTER refer to the HDD manual or even the label on the HDD itself and make sure to jumper it correctly.

a little help from the Hardware Tech Team

your response to this on the other thread was this:

how can you do that?

the answer: remove the Hard Drive from the enclosure and look at the label and see what the setting for the Master would be. and be sure that you place the Master Setting on the correct pins so you, will have to look at the label and see how the image is shown and look at the connectiosn for the HDD then jumper as required, and install HDD again. and try it out. best to reboot first

MGmalson · 04-25-2005, 12:11 PM

thank you for your suggestion, i will give that a try

**norin** · 04-25-2005, 12:28 PM

do let us know how it goes.

**johnwill** · 04-25-2005, 06:12 PM

It appears that you may just have to go to Disk Management and partition and format the drive.

Right click on My Computer, Manage, Disk Management. You should find the drive there listed as "Unallocated". Right click on the drive graphic and partition and format it.

04-25-2005, 10:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
MGmalson Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Southern Idaho Posts: 13 OS: Windows XP	External Hard Drive Problems I have an 80GB external hard drive on my computer, the computer recognizes it, but it wont assign it a letter and allow me to access it in my computer. also it doesnt have any error messages, anyone have any suggestions

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norin TSF Veteran Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: L-Town, Maine Posts: 1,748 OS: WinXP Pro SP3 My System	do let us know how it goes. __________________

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johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,720 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	It appears that you may just have to go to Disk Management and partition and format the drive. Right click on My Computer, Manage, Disk Management. You should find the drive there listed as "Unallocated". Right click on the drive graphic and partition and format it. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

04-25-2005, 12:11 PM	#3 (permalink)
MGmalson Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Southern Idaho Posts: 13 OS: Windows XP	thank you for your suggestion, i will give that a try