Portable hard drive not workin

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Today I purchase one 80 GB Hitachi, 2.5" portable hard drive. when I connect to my system....althou it recognizes it...but new drive does not appear inside My Computers ....Pls help me out in this !!!!

paul_007 said:
Today I purchase one 80 GB Hitachi, 2.5" portable hard drive. when I connect to my system....althou it recognizes it...but new drive does not appear inside My Computers ....Pls help me out in this !!!!

thats easy yaar!! u just have to format it and make partitions like u do with a normal hdd
after u have plugged in ur portable hard drive..right click my computer->manage
then under storage select disk managment.u shud be able to see ur new drive in here

Jags said:
thats easy yaar!! u just have to format it and make partitions like u do with a normal hdd
after u have plugged in ur portable hard drive..right click my computer->manage
then under storage select disk managment.u shud be able to see ur new drive in here

Nice xplanation dude

codename_romeo said:
Nice xplanation dude

coz I had the same problm when I bought usb-hdd few months ago

Jags said:
thats easy yaar!! u just have to format it and make partitions like u do with a normal hdd
after u have plugged in ur portable hard drive..right click my computer->manage
then under storage select disk managment.u shud be able to see ur new drive in here

Hey ...thanks a lot.... now my portable drive is working perfectly when i followed as u said ... thanx a lot once again ....

no problemo !!