when i plug my extornal western digital hard drive trough usb i hear a sound that it was found, an icon pops up by the clock (right on the bottom), but when iam checking my computer i cant see my hard drive there so whats the problem...
yes i have 2.0 usb
i went to a disk management, in the disk management, on that hard drive instead of saying "Healthy (system)" it says "Unallocated" and also its not showing me the letter of the hard drive. when i click on it with a right button i con only see New Partition..., Properties, and Help. thats all. so i can even defragment
2006-10-18 16:25:08 · 6 answers · asked by Dr. Seb 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
how would i back my files from there?
i bought same hard drive last week it works but this one that iam talking about doesnt
i need to pull all the info from my hard drive any ideas how i can do that
2006-10-18 16:34:07 · update #1
i didnt get any cdies with it
2006-10-18 16:36:15 · update #2
i to i go to a dos
2006-10-18 16:52:00 · update #3
Well if you had information on this hard drive, your computer now thinks there is nothing there.
If this is a new hard drive, go ahead and create the new partition. Every hard drive for every operating system, NEEDS to have a partition, and then must be formatted before you can use it.
If you had critical data on it, you are going to need specialist recovery software to try to get the data back.
2006-10-18 16:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by teef_au 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what you described, it appears you have not configured you external hard drive. To do that, you'll need to enter Set Up again and allocate a file system, prefer NTSC, and designate the drive.
This isn't recommended to amateurs, so, I'd suggest that you get the people who sold you the external hard drive to come and install it for you.
Going through the Set Up by yourself is risky because the license for Windows XP is usually valid for a single installation and with one small mistake there, you could end up having to buy a new license.
All the best.
Cheers.
2006-10-18 23:33:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your drive has not been format or partitioned or is not a nfts or fat tabled drive.
Simple click on new partition and choose a drive letter and format the drive to used and then you will have a letter and see the unused drive and b e able to read and write from it in your "My computer" explorer window.
Note: when you format you will erase your contents on this drive if there were items on it back it up first before you format it.
2006-10-18 23:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by hotredhead2655 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to create a partition on the drive. Click the "new partition" button and follow the prompts.
2006-10-18 23:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by RLP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
find the cd for it or go on the internet and download the dirvers for it. If you can go in under properties click on the driver tab and clikc uninstall and then reinstall drivers and see if that helps to fix it.
2006-10-18 23:28:35 · answer #5 · answered by fullerfyed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
id recommend reformating it in a DOS format. you should not have too partitiion
2006-10-18 23:26:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋