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external Hard drive
I just got a Western Digital 500 Gig hard drive, that came with a free case that connects to a computer via USB. (www.geeks.com). I need it for my laptop to put my iTunes songs, movies, and TV shows on because my laptop hard drive is only about 100 gigs. I insert the USB into the port, windows recognizes it, and the new hardware icon appears in the tray, but when i go to my computer to access it and put things on it, nothing appears. so i went to add/remove hardware and it said that it was properly installed and working, even though it clearly is not. does anyone know what i can do to fix this problem/ get my computer to recognize it?
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Re: external Hard drive
Maybe it's not formatted as of yet.. Go to disk management, under computer management, and check. And if it isn't formatted, do it.
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NTFS is the best format if you get the option.
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computer management is in the control panel? sorry, im new to this because i have a my book from WD to back up my desktop, and the my book basically installs itself perfectly when it is plugged in, so i have not gone through this yet.
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Start>Control Panel>Administrative tools>Computer Management>Disk Management - NTFS is the way to go
How to use Disk Management - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000
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when i go to disc management all it says is i have my primary hard drive, C NTFS, and i have 8 gigs free, and under that is my external, 465.76 gigs free space, unallocated. when i right click all it says is make partition. HELP what should i do im confused.
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Make a partition, NTFS, use default settings, and then format -
The link I provided you talks about partioning and formatting and how to do it step by step-
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thanks guys, it works now! :)