On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:20:48 -0400, "Chuck" <>
wrote:
>John,
>
>A few questions:
> Did you remove a jumper from the hard drive? Do so.....it
>was most likely set as slave.
> Is this a 2.5" dia. HD?
> The external drive may not be getting sufficient power from
>the Firewire. Do you have an external power supply?
>
>Do the following:
> Right click on "My Computer"
> Left click on "Manage"
> Left click on "Storage"
> Left click on "Disk Management"
> see if the drive is listed at the top right and at the
>bottom as Disk 1
> Right click on the drive (at the bottom) and follow the
>format screen....format to FAT32
>
>After formatting......disconnect the external drive and reboot. Plug in the
>drive......my computer should find the drive.
>
>Good luck
>
>Chuck
>
>
>"John H. Power" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:23:05 -0400, "Chuck" <>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Is the hard drive formatted? What version of windows are you running?
>> >
>> >"John H. Power" <> wrote in message
>> >news:.. .
>> >> I decided to use my extrenal HD as a backup drive with BackupMy PC.
>> >> When I went to do a backup the program said it needed to format the
>> >> drive. After a few seconds it said it could not format that type of
>> >> media so I exited intending to reformat it and just use the copy
>> >> command. Now the drive does not show in the My Computer screen on any
>> >> of my computers even though when I pug it in I get the little arrow in
>> >> the task bar that shows it can be ejected and when I pulled the
>> >> firewire connector out the computer makes the pooping noise.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas on this?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks
>> >
>> XP Home. Hard drive has been formatted for the past year.
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up trying Partition Magic. That
program found the drive even though it did not show up on My Computer.
I formatted it and was back to my pre BackUp MY PC condition.
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