Need some advice...

When I plug up my 160gig Seagate external USB drive , it pops up and says
it's installing drivers for the following:
---------------------------------------------
USB Mass Storage Device
Disk Drive
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And when it's done and both say Ready to use next to them, it isn't listed
in My Computer. I've tried going into the Disk Management utility and it
doesn't show up there either. And it does this everytime I restart. PLEASE
help!!!!

New drive?

After the drive has been detected, you have to use disk management to create
a partition and format said partition. Then the drive will be noticed and
will be available for use.

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Richard Urban
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Nick" <> wrote in message
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> When I plug up my 160gig Seagate external USB drive , it pops up and says
> it's installing drivers for the following:
> ---------------------------------------------
> USB Mass Storage Device
> Disk Drive
> ---------------------------------------------
> And when it's done and both say Ready to use next to them, it isn't listed
> in My Computer. I've tried going into the Disk Management utility and it
> doesn't show up there either. And it does this everytime I restart. PLEASE
> help!!!!

I believe he said it doesn't show up in disk management.

Can you verify if the drive works in another machine?


"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:...
> New drive?
>
> After the drive has been detected, you have to use disk management to
> create a partition and format said partition. Then the drive will be
> noticed and will be available for use.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "Nick" <> wrote in message
> news:BF340CA7-4379-4ADE-85AF-...
>> When I plug up my 160gig Seagate external USB drive , it pops up and says
>> it's installing drivers for the following:
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> USB Mass Storage Device
>> Disk Drive
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> And when it's done and both say Ready to use next to them, it isn't
>> listed in My Computer. I've tried going into the Disk Management utility
>> and it doesn't show up there either. And it does this everytime I
>> restart. PLEASE help!!!!
>

The Seagate external drives I use come without any partitions on them. It is
up to the user to create/format said partition. They also tell me I may have
to reboot to use the drive. After a reboot I am able to create and format a
partition using Disk Management.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Justin" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I believe he said it doesn't show up in disk management.
>
> Can you verify if the drive works in another machine?
>
>
> "Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> New drive?
>>
>> After the drive has been detected, you have to use disk management to
>> create a partition and format said partition. Then the drive will be
>> noticed and will be available for use.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>>
>>
>> "Nick" <> wrote in message
>> news:BF340CA7-4379-4ADE-85AF-...
>>> When I plug up my 160gig Seagate external USB drive , it pops up and
>>> says it's installing drivers for the following:
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>> USB Mass Storage Device
>>> Disk Drive
>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>> And when it's done and both say Ready to use next to them, it isn't
>>> listed in My Computer. I've tried going into the Disk Management utility
>>> and it doesn't show up there either. And it does this everytime I
>>> restart. PLEASE help!!!!
>>

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:05:30 -0500, "Richard Urban"
<> spake thusly:

>The Seagate external drives I use come without any partitions on them. It is
>up to the user to create/format said partition. They also tell me I may have
>to reboot to use the drive. After a reboot I am able to create and format a
>partition using Disk Management.

The Maxtor and LaCie external drives I use came fully formatted,
(albiet HFS+). :-)
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