HELP! Firewire hard drive connected..but I dont see it???

[jozthomas]

I've brought a new external 120 GB hard drive, and connected it to my 4-pin firewire port on my laptop.

The OS sees the drive and does not give any problems.
But how in the world do I see the drive myself. I've checked in "mycomputer" but i do not visually see the drive.

It it located on: LUN 0 (No idea what that means)
But the drive is installed and working properly. I just have no idea how to access it.

Any suggestions??? Please let me know.

 

[swker98]

did it come with an install disk, if so use it.

 

[jozthomas]

Disk is useless

The disk is useless. With firewire, there should be no driver installation, unlike USB. The disk only contains a backup software that came with the hard drive. No driver information or executable is included.

But I have just figured it out after some research.
Whenever you install a new external hard drive and you come across this situation, you need to assign a drive letter to it by formating it through "computer management" in your control panel / Administrative tools

Thanks for the response though.
But my new 120 GB drive is up and running.