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February 7th 07, 10:39 AM
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Adding an unformatted drive un a USB external enclosure - help!
I have an unformatted hard drive in a USB external enclosure. I know with XP
you needed to use PQ Magic or Acronis complete suite so create a partition pointing to the new disk and then format it. I had hoped that Vista would have built this functionality in. SO I plugged the new disk in last night, and nothing. No drive letter. Does anyone know how I can do it with native Vista, or do I need PQ Magic or Acronis? TIA 
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February 7th 07, 03:48 PM
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Adding an unformatted drive un a USB external enclosure - help!
After plugging in the drive open Computer Management. Under the Storage
section, open Disk Management. The drive should show up there. If you right click on it, you should be able to format it and give it a drive letter. "Johnny C" wrote in message ... I have an unformatted hard drive in a USB external enclosure. I know with XP you needed to use PQ Magic or Acronis complete suite so create a partition pointing to the new disk and then format it. I had hoped that Vista would have built this functionality in. SO I plugged the new disk in last night, and nothing. No drive letter. Does anyone know how I can do it with native Vista, or do I need PQ Magic or Acronis? TIA
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February 7th 07, 10:20 PM
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Adding an unformatted drive un a USB external enclosure - help
"David A. Lessnau" wrote: You may just have to give it a drive letter. try that before formatting if you have data on it. XP would do the same thing After plugging in the drive open Computer Management. Under the Storage section, open Disk Management. The drive should show up there. If you right click on it, you should be able to format it and give it a drive letter. "Johnny C" wrote in message ... I have an unformatted hard drive in a USB external enclosure. I know with XP you needed to use PQ Magic or Acronis complete suite so create a partition pointing to the new disk and then format it. I had hoped that Vista would have built this functionality in. SO I plugged the new disk in last night, and nothing. No drive letter. Does anyone know how I can do it with native Vista, or do I need PQ Magic or Acronis? TIA
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November 10th 08, 12:48 PM
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Adding an unformatted drive un a USB external enclosure - help!
I am having the same problem as TIA. But my external unformatted usb hdd does _NOT_ appear under Computer Management -- Disk Management. Any suggestions?? --M -- ekimssor
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