External Hard drive...not showing up. Please Help

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I need help. I have no idea what to do. I want to pull my hair out.....
I got a Maxtor external hard drive. The only instructions is... plug it in
and restart the computer. I did and nothing... and tried different ways. I
go under devicemanager and I see it there and it says it is working fine but
It does not show up in my computer and I have no idea how to use it...
Please Help....
Oh.. and I have XP a brand new computer....
Thank you and God Bless!

 

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Right click My Computer, select Manage then Disk Management. You can
format it there and assign a drive letter.

"prettyjuls" <prettyjuls@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1416A305-07D4-49E4-B6F1-979BFFC1B1C8@microsoft.com...
>I need help. I have no idea what to do. I want to pull my hair out.....
> I got a Maxtor external hard drive. The only instructions is... plug it in
> and restart the computer. I did and nothing... and tried different ways.
> I
> go under devicemanager and I see it there and it says it is working fine
> but
> It does not show up in my computer and I have no idea how to use it...
> Please Help....
> Oh.. and I have XP a brand new computer....
> Thank you and God Bless!

 

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Hi. I tried it. Thanks. It is showing up as an unknown device. I am taking it
back. Thank you... and please do .... send me directions on how to format,
please so I will know... how to do it when I get this new one. Thank you for
replying. I really do appreciate it.
Julie

"RonK" wrote:

> Right click My Computer, select Manage then Disk Management. You can
> format it there and assign a drive letter.
>
> "prettyjuls" <prettyjuls@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1416A305-07D4-49E4-B6F1-979BFFC1B1C8@microsoft.com...
> >I need help. I have no idea what to do. I want to pull my hair out.....
> > I got a Maxtor external hard drive. The only instructions is... plug it in
> > and restart the computer. I did and nothing... and tried different ways.
> > I
> > go under devicemanager and I see it there and it says it is working fine
> > but
> > It does not show up in my computer and I have no idea how to use it...
> > Please Help....
> > Oh.. and I have XP a brand new computer....
> > Thank you and God Bless!
>
>
>