USB 1.8" 20gb hard drive will not mount in "my computer"

robbie172006 · 11-07-2008, 03:07 PM

i took out the miniture hard drive out of my old h10 iriver and i put it into a casing i bought online and im having a few problems with it. for starters it takes like a hour or 2 to be reconized by my computer i thought it was dead at first but i left it plugged in over night and i seen the little your new hard war is installed and ready for use ballon in the system tray but when i went to my computer to access it the wasnt any removeable media just my local drive and my DVD drive. i went into the device managerand checked under disk drives and i have a new drive listed but it doesnt have a name it has like 20 symbols as the name. i also went into the properites of it and it says that its working properly but under the volumes tap when i try to pouplate it says things like unde status its unknown and partition style is unknown.

what should i do so i can make this thing usable?

robbie172006 · 11-08-2008, 11:39 PM

here is some more info i found this when i went into system info under storage devices
Type:Direct Access Device
Vendor:
Model:™¸@Ö‡ ¸ònöìrè?EKð¹ USB Device
Size:2199 GBytes
Interface: USB USB

why does the model number look like that?
why does it say i have 2199 GBytes if its only 20 gb? Itsnt that like 2 Terabytes?
wut da fux is wrong with this Drive its getting to be a real pain in the ***...
any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

11-07-2008, 03:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
robbie172006 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 7 OS: XP Sp 3	USB 1.8" 20gb hard drive will not mount in "my computer" i took out the miniture hard drive out of my old h10 iriver and i put it into a casing i bought online and im having a few problems with it. for starters it takes like a hour or 2 to be reconized by my computer i thought it was dead at first but i left it plugged in over night and i seen the little your new hard war is installed and ready for use ballon in the system tray but when i went to my computer to access it the wasnt any removeable media just my local drive and my DVD drive. i went into the device managerand checked under disk drives and i have a new drive listed but it doesnt have a name it has like 20 symbols as the name. i also went into the properites of it and it says that its working properly but under the volumes tap when i try to pouplate it says things like unde status its unknown and partition style is unknown. what should i do so i can make this thing usable?

11-08-2008, 11:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
robbie172006 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 7 OS: XP Sp 3	Re: USB 1.8" 20gb hard drive will not mount in "my computer" here is some more info i found this when i went into system info under storage devices Type:Direct Access Device Vendor: Model:™¸@Ö‡ ¸ònöìrè?EKð¹ USB Device Size:2199 GBytes Interface: USB USB why does the model number look like that? why does it say i have 2199 GBytes if its only 20 gb? Itsnt that like 2 Terabytes? wut da fux is wrong with this Drive its getting to be a real pain in the ***... any help or info would be greatly appreciated.