External IBM Travelstar USB HDD

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This is something that is really annoying me. I have a 40GB in a USB HDD
Case and my system won't recognise it, i know i have to format the drive
or something along those lines, can anyone tell me how to do this on
XP??

Many Thanks for your help.


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"BigFatGoalie" <BigFatGoalie.1d6tcz@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> This is something that is really annoying me. I have a 40GB in a USB HDD
> Case and my system won't recognise it, i know i have to format the drive
> or something along those lines, can anyone tell me how to do this on
> XP??
>
> Many Thanks for your help.
>
>
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> BigFatGoalie

Start>Control Panel.>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk
Management, select the drive then click Action>All Tasks>Format.