Need to format a NEW hard drive via USB (enclosure) - how to?

[Guest daviddschool@gmail.com]

I have a hard drive enclosure housing a new Western Digital HD. I

have plugged it into the computer and it recognizes the USB device,

but does not show it in the windows explorer. I am assuming I have to

format it first, but I am not sure how to do this without being able

to see the drive in Windows.

 

I am sure it is a simple fix, any help would be great

[Guest Nepatsfan]

Re: Need to format a NEW hard drive via USB (enclosure) - how to?

 

<daviddschool@gmail.com> wrote in message

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>I have a hard drive enclosure housing a new Western Digital HD. I

> have plugged it into the computer and it recognizes the USB device,

> but does not show it in the windows explorer. I am assuming I have to

> format it first, but I am not sure how to do this without being able

> to see the drive in Windows.

>

> I am sure it is a simple fix, any help would be great

 

 

Right click My Computer and select Manage from the menu.

In Computer Management, click on Disk Management in the left hand pane.

Does your USB drive show up in the right hand pane?

If it does, you can right click on it and create a partition which you can then

format.

 

Good luck

 

Nepatsfan

[Guest sgopus]

RE: Need to format a NEW hard drive via USB (enclosure) - how to?

 

Please be sure to convert to Basic rather than dynamic, you will be happier.

 

"daviddschool@gmail.com" wrote:

> I have a hard drive enclosure housing a new Western Digital HD. I

> have plugged it into the computer and it recognizes the USB device,

> but does not show it in the windows explorer. I am assuming I have to

> format it first, but I am not sure how to do this without being able

> to see the drive in Windows.

>

> I am sure it is a simple fix, any help would be great

>

[Guest Onsokumaru]

Re: Need to format a NEW hard drive via USB (enclosure) - how to?

 

 

"sgopus" <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Please be sure to convert to Basic rather than dynamic, you will be

> happier.

>

> "daviddschool@gmail.com" wrote:

>

>> I have a hard drive enclosure housing a new Western Digital HD. I

>> have plugged it into the computer and it recognizes the USB device,

>> but does not show it in the windows explorer. I am assuming I have to

>> format it first, but I am not sure how to do this without being able

>> to see the drive in Windows.

>>

>> I am sure it is a simple fix, any help would be great

>>

 

He will also be happier to know he needs to go into disk management to

initialise and format the drive.