External Hard Drive Problem

[imported_DK]

I bought this drive Here
When I plug it in is detects it but it does not install properly or show up on the my computer screen.

I have win xp home. How do I install this thing? Thank you

 

[Baked]

You need to go to Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management, then right click on the slab of unallocated black chunk of unformatted new ext. HD, and format/partition the sucker. The formatting/partitioning wizard window will come up. Follow directions and you're done.

 

[imported_DK]

The drive does not show up in that window, all it has is my regular hard drive.

 

[Baked]

Do a screen cap of the Disk Management screen and post it. Use imageshack.us to host pic.

 

[imported_DK]

All it shows is the internal drive, the external drive is not anywhere to be seen

 

[imported_DK]

the model number on the drive is hds722525vlat80 if that helps.
I moved the jumper from master to slave and that did no help, it made the light on the drive red instead of green so it must be on master, i guess.

 

[InlineFive]

I would first make sure that everything is connected snugly and that the drive is spinning up. If that doesn't work and it still doesn't show up in Disk Management I would try it in another computer.

 

[imported_DK]

I can hear the drive spin and the connections (internal and external) are all conected properly.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: DK
the model number on the drive is hds722525vlat80 if that helps.
I moved the jumper from master to slave and that did no help, it made the light on the drive red instead of green so it must be on master, i guess.

I know those numbers, here it is translated in to english:
HDS= Hitachi Desk Star
72= 7200rpm
25=250gb
vlat= IDE
80= 8mb Cache
This is a hitachi IDE ATA-100 internal drive.


Try Setting the jumper to cable select, and make sure you dont set the jumpers for cutoff.

 

[imported_DK]

Setting the jumpers to cable select still does the same thing; The drive is detected but not installed properly and it does not show up anywhere on any screen.