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external hard drive help

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by sam_me, Jan 12, 2007.

  1. sam_me Newcomer, in training

    I just connected a new Maxtor external hard drive and I noticed that it doesn't appear in My Computer. I went into disk management and the drive is in there (it say's its online) but it says it's "unallocated". Any help would appreciated and thank you in advance.
    sam_me, Jan 12, 2007
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  2. Jesse_hz TechSpot Maniac Posts: 638

    Since it's new, it's probably not partitioned and formatted yet. Try to right-click on the drive in Disk Management and select 'create partition', then right-click again and select 'Format'.

    Hope it helps!
    Jesse_hz, Jan 13, 2007
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