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Hello everyone,
I recently bought a 2½" HDD and an enclosure (USB) so I could construct an external hard drive for video editing files.
Everything is put together, I have connected it to the computer (XP) and the drive lights up, I see activity and Windows installs it and shows it as a USB Mass Storage Device in device manager. Everything seems fine with the drive, it even shows it as a Toshiba drive which it is... but I can't figure a way to access the drive lol
The computer knows it is there and in working order, but it is not showing up in My Computer like I imagined.
I guess I need to format it, but how the hell do you format a USB drive? Is there a command like "format c:" for a USB device? Also, the drive has 4 pins for a jumper... I.e. I can stick the jumper in 2 positions (4 if you include horizantal) but the drive did not come with one... Thanks for the newb help!
I recently bought a 2½" HDD and an enclosure (USB) so I could construct an external hard drive for video editing files.
Everything is put together, I have connected it to the computer (XP) and the drive lights up, I see activity and Windows installs it and shows it as a USB Mass Storage Device in device manager. Everything seems fine with the drive, it even shows it as a Toshiba drive which it is... but I can't figure a way to access the drive lol
The computer knows it is there and in working order, but it is not showing up in My Computer like I imagined.
I guess I need to format it, but how the hell do you format a USB drive? Is there a command like "format c:" for a USB device? Also, the drive has 4 pins for a jumper... I.e. I can stick the jumper in 2 positions (4 if you include horizantal) but the drive did not come with one... Thanks for the newb help!