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    WD Caviar green 2 TB in external enclosure, problem please help

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by smood, Mar 20, 2011.

  1. smood

    smood Notebook Evangelist

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    I put a 2 TB western digital Caviar green in a nexstar CX enclosure and connected it to my desktop and laptop with a USB cable. What happens is it detects the drive and says its ready for use but then it doesn't show up in explorer under windows 7.

    It shows up as a harddrive in device manager, it says that its a USB device though, but it doesn't show up in windows explorer so I can't access it.

    Anyone know of a solution? Thanks.
     
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    Right-click 'Computer' and click Manage. From there, go to Disk Management.

    If you see the drive there, you should be able to right-click the partition and click 'Change Drive Letter and Paths' and assign a drive letter.
     
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    To add to that, make sure that the drive has been initialized and formatted.
     
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    Thank you guys! You are both right, it asked to initialize an unknown disc, now I think I should try to create a new simple volume on it from disk management.

    Edit: Yes this leads me to formatting options. I'll do a format tomorrow and report back. Thank you!!
     
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    I formatted and now its working fine. Thanks guys!
     
    smood, Mar 20, 2011
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