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My 9300 recognizes external hd but cant acess the disk drive space...help

post #1 of 7
8/17/06 at 2:18pm
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Ok i bought an WD320 gig 8mb cache sata2 with the Venus Enclosure for 3.5sata usb

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817145660

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136003

those are the products i bought to hook up to my 9300...

i plug it in with power and the usb and the lappy recognizes the WDC WD32 USB Device, but i cant get into the drive, it doesnt show up in the window screen where you see your other diskdriver and cdroms. They did include a red cable sata cable that i didnt hookup because i do not have a connection for it on the laptop, but it doesnt seem like i need one because the pc seems to recognize the hardware with out it.

Need help acessing the drive. Help, i was hoping for this to be a simple plug and play deal but im now wondering if i chose the wrong hardware....errr
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post #2 of 7
8/17/06 at 3:50pm
Have you made any partition on this brand new HD?
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post #3 of 7
8/17/06 at 3:55pm
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nothing, plugged it in and thats it, just cant get into it to partition or store info
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post #4 of 7
8/17/06 at 3:57pm
Go into Computer Management to partition and format the HD and also giving the proper drive letters
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post #5 of 7
8/17/06 at 3:59pm
Start>run>compmgmt.msc

In the left pane of the window that opens, click Disk Management. Create your partition(s) and format.
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post #6 of 7
8/17/06 at 4:07pm
Good luck .

For sure this is the little problem.

Peace and beers
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post #7 of 7
8/17/06 at 4:29pm
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awesome worked like a charm, thank you so much guys
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