Posted on 01/12/2018 12:50:22 PM PST by pabianice
I know.
download gparted live,burn cd or usb, boot it up and create new partition, ntfs would be best
Correct me if I’m wrong, but all those links go to ‘help me’ threads to FR posted over time by pabianice. If that is true, maybe Tom is suggesting pabianice shouldn’t mess with computers as he is in over his head.
Use Cortana to go to Disk Management. It will show a list of drives. You will see a disk with no drive letter. Right click on that drive to assign a letter. A small screen will appear - click ‘add’ to show and accept a drive letter for your drive. I’ve read that this happens when you plug a drive into a USB plug that isn’t on your motherboard.
Plug and play is just that. Connect disk, play. Except the PC doesn’t recognize I have connected an external disk.
Nope. Drive is connected and powered-up. PC doesn’t see it. Have swapped USB inputs. Nothing. Lights on, nobody home. Replaced an earlier ACOM drive that worked fine until one day I opened it and it was blank.
I’m sorry that did not help. You might need to return it.
Doing so. Thanks.
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