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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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^ no
if it wasn't formatted first there is now way of making the USB see it not sure why but that is the way it is.
Stick it straight in a PC first and format it. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Stick it straight in a PC first and format it. |
That's worked for me in the past. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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A few things:
- What's the make of the drive and what's the make of the case? It's possible that the case doesn't have enough power for the drive.
- Plug it into a few other computers and try to format that way.
- Go into control panel, printers and other hardware, system, hardware, device manager. Check if there's a black exclamation mark next to the drive letter. If there is, right click on it and update the driver and see how that works. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: |
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Is it a SATA or EDIE drive? I assume it's in the USB case and that is where you are trying to get all of this done through?
You will have to take it out of the case (USB) and put it into the system. Then boot form the Windows CD and go to the system recovery console.
After it does its thing, find the drive letter assigned to your new drive and format it from there, under Windows.
If that doesn't work, you may need a system tool like Spinrite. Get it through the usual places, make a bootable CD or diskette and run it. That will take a while.
Partition magic can't help?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/advanced/ntfs.mspx |
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