Steve Parry

petrolcan wrote:
> I have purchased myself an external hard drive as extra
storage for
> my laptop but I can't access it despite trying everything I
can think
> of and googling like a bastard, so please help me :-)
>
> It's a 30gb hard drive in it's own little enclosure connected
via
> usb2.0. The OS is xp home.
>
> I can see the drive in the setup screen and the device manager
tells
> me that all is well but I cannot access it via 'my computer'
or send
> files to it.
>
> If it matters it's been bought from ebay.
>
> Suggestions please

what OS is on your laptop?

If its windows 2000 or XP goto
start
run
type
diskmgmt.msc
click OK
and see if its in there but needing partitioning and formatting

(in the grey area in the bottom where it says disk 1 etc right
click to see the options)

If its win 98 etc

try
Start
Run
type
command
click OK
in the command window type fdisk and see if your drive shows up
there.

Big caution though with all OS's its easy to feck things up with
disk config stuff..


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Steve Parry

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Steve Parry

petrolcan wrote:
> In article <bjlcck$itsrl$1@ID-190837.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Steve Parry
> says...
>> petrolcan wrote:
>>> I have purchased myself an external hard drive as extra
>> storage for
>>> my laptop but I can't access it despite trying everything I
>> can think
>>> of and googling like a bastard, so please help me :-)
>
>>> Suggestions please
>>
>> what OS is on your laptop?
>
> Get your eyes checked :-)

they said all those years of self abuse would feck up my
eyesight ;o) ... glad to have helped

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Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://wrexhamseals.tripod.com