USB Drive Help

[Dholaholic]

hey guys I recently bought a western digital portable hard drive 320gb for taking my music with me cuzi m a dj. But when i plug it into my laptop , the computer recognizese that something is plugged in, but it does not show up in the "my computer" section where u can see ur C: Drive and D: Drive. I want to be able to open the songs from virtual dj but i cant even see the device anywhere on my computer. I know its not my usb drives they all work fine, and this problem is only on the laptop not on my desktop.
Any help pleasee??

 

[LiLSandhu]

Try this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871233

 

[Dholaholic]

thanks but my computer does recognize something plugged in, i just cant see it anywhere once it is plugged in

 

[LiLSandhu]

so its plugged in and you cant see it when you go to my computer?

go to the link i posted before follow the steps in method 2 and it should work. i had the same issue with my lacie 320 gb external hardrive i did that and it showed up on my computer.

 

[GSingh]

Right click on my computer and click manage. then on the left pane, click disk management. Does it show up in the bottom pane? If it does, just format it.

 

[AnkurK]

throw it out buy a new one.

 

[choochoo33]

throw it out buy a new one.

It's just a joke!

 

[ENVY BANG-RUH]

throw it out buy a new one.

It's just a joke!

hahaha

 

[Dholaholic]

Right click on my computer and click manage. then on the left pane, click disk management. Does it show up in the bottom pane? If it does, just format it.

yes it does show up, how do i format it?

 

[GSingh]

Right click on my computer and click manage. then on the left pane, click disk management. Does it show up in the bottom pane? If it does, just format it.

yes it does show up, how do i format it?

right click on it and click delete partition. Then right click again and click "new volume" or "new partition" (something like that). Go ahead and name it whatever and assign it whatever letter you want and leave the settings on default (probably a 4096k allocation size and NTFS file system). Click next and hit format. Wait for it to hit 100%. New working drive appears.