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boramk

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Ok, so I bought a 750GB and put it in an external enclosure...
I plug it in the USB, I get devices were properly installed but I still cant see anything in my computer?
 
boramk said:
Ok, so I bought a 750GB and put it in an external enclosure...
I plug it in the USB, I get devices were properly installed but I still cant see anything in my computer?
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If I were you, I would first plug it into the computer, initialize the disk, partition and format, copy your data, THEN put it into the external enclosure.

To do it all through the USB is going to take you a couple of days.
 
because magically it must have a partition table and filesystem, yeah.

it is a blank hdd, so go to computer maangement, disk administrater and initialise the drive.

or, in old-skool speak, fdisk+format.
 
Garyvdh said:
If I were you, I would first plug it into the computer, initialize the disk, partition and format, copy your data, THEN put it into the external enclosure.

To do it all through the USB is going to take you a couple of days.
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thanks...

Is a new hard drive formatted when it comes? or do i have to format it?
 
thing is... i did try put it into my desktop pc first, but it never picked it up...
nothing on " my computer"
 
Garyvdh said:
If I were you, I would first plug it into the computer, initialize the disk, partition and format, copy your data, THEN put it into the external enclosure.
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Tried that, but my computer never picked it up
 
Does the Enclosure need it's own power source, or is it like one of those that only need to plug into USB to work?
Edit: so the HDD does not work in the enclosure or in your PC?
 
werner said:
because magically it must have a partition table and filesystem, yeah.

it is a blank hdd, so go to computer maangement, disk administrater and initialise the drive.

or, in old-skool speak, fdisk+format.
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Correct. or:
go to admin tools > computer management > disk administrater and format the drive.
 
Keeper said:
Correct. or:
go to admin tools > computer management > disk administrater and format the drive.
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There is no drive! Thats the problem! I dont see anything!
I'm 2 minutes away from going to incredible ripoff :(
 
OK OK... plug it in straight through sata, not usb, First

then, is it showing in the bios when on sata?
 
boramk said:
Tried that, but my computer never picked it up
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1) Does it show up in the BIOS? Have you set the BIOS to see it?

2) You have to initialize it in Windows....

go to Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management...

Scroll down until you see the new disk, right click on it and choose "Initialize"

you might have to reboot.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...069a-4a5d-8cad-6be0fdec01091033.mspx?mfr=true

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Disk-management-under-Windows-XP-31331.shtml
 
Garyvdh said:
1) Does it show up in the BIOS? Have you set the BIOS to see it?

2) You have to initialize it in Windows....

go to Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management...

Scroll down until you see the new disk, right click on it and choose "Initialize"

you might have to reboot.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...069a-4a5d-8cad-6be0fdec01091033.mspx?mfr=true

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Disk-management-under-Windows-XP-31331.shtml
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+1 --- what Garyvdh said....

Your SATA ports must be enabled in your BIOS to begin with - usually DEL or F2 or F10 to get into your BIOS to change this setting - which motherboard/model do you have?
 
howardb said:
+1 --- what Garyvdh said....

Your SATA ports must be enabled in your BIOS to begin with - usually DEL or F2 or F10 to get into your BIOS to change this setting - which motherboard/model do you have?
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Good point... if it is a SATA... is it your first SATA drive? Have you loaded a driver for your SATA controller?
 
No its not my first SATA drive...

Well, I went to Incredible and they formatted it, and now its working... Oh well :)
 
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