jake Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Vista wont recognize my drive under (my computer) but it shows up correctly in the device manager. ive tried to update the drivers and ive also uninstalled and disconnected the device then reinstalled the drivers and plugged it back in. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 If you haven't already, partition and format the drive. This is an essential task to perform before anything can use it, it's blank. Generally you think of a blank drive as being one which contains no files but even then it has partitions laid out on it ready and waiting to hold data and without this it just looks like nothing to Windows (or MacOS or Linux or...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 If you haven't already, partition and format the drive. This is an essential task to perform before anything can use it, it's blank. Generally you think of a blank drive as being one which contains no files but even then it has partitions laid out on it ready and waiting to hold data and without this it just looks like nothing to Windows (or MacOS or Linux or...) yes i thought of this but how to you format a drive if it does not have a drive letter assigned to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tactix Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 download gparted burn it to a disk set pc to boot from the cd/dvd drive boot gparted and partition the drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 download gparted burn it to a disk set pc to boot from the cd/dvd drive boot gparted and partition the drive thanks ill try this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Right click on Computer, go to Manage, select disk management, select your new disc, create a partition on this disk, format it and assign it a drive letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake Posted October 3, 2008 Author Share Posted October 3, 2008 thank you the g-parted worked but i used a linux recovery disk with gparted on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Di Pablo Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Right click on Computer, go to Manage, select disk management, select your new disc, create a partition on this disk, format it and assign it a drive letter. Yes...The easy way :-) Gparted would work too, but is unnecessary for something this simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tactix Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Right click on Computer, go to Manage, select disk management, select your new disc, create a partition on this disk, format it and assign it a drive letter. ah i like the hard life lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 The easy way is to go to Control Panel>>Admin Tools>>Drive Manager>>Assign a Drive letter and format.. No need to download other tools if you can do it from the OS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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