need some help with my external drive

[BaronBamboo]

Hi this is my problem

I have this segate 500gb freeagent hard drive. When I plug it in it gets recognized, but when I go through my computer to click on it, it keeps saying drive not accessible. Why would this happen? Really don't want to send it back grr, I lost the receipt for the drive and the thing it came in, but I have the box, the wires and on the box it says 5 year warranty, so I hope they take it back it comes to that.

please any help would be great, thanks.

 

[zandor]

Have you partitioned & formatted it? What's disk management say?

 

[PC_User]

Have you partitioned & formatted it? What's disk management say?

Check what Disk Management says. Are you logged on as System Administrator with full permission to access the drive?

 

[BaronBamboo]

ok sorry sorta new witht his stuff. I assumed these hard drives were just plug in and go

ok what do you guys specifically need?

I'm in computer management

layout: simple, type: Basic, File system: RAW, Status: Healthy (primary partition)

capacity: 465.76rolleyes, Free space: 465.76gb, %Free: 100%, Fault Tolernace: No
Overheard: 0%

I didn't partition anything yet. Thanks for the fast replies!

and PC_User I should be logged in as the admin. My friend set up the vista for me, but yeah my comp so I assume I should be admin

 

[PC_User]

layout: simple, type: Basic, File system: RAW, Status: Healthy (primary partition)

capacity: 465.76rolleyes, Free space: 465.76gb, %Free: 100%, Fault Tolernace: No
Overheard: 0%

I didn't partition anything yet. Thanks for the fast replies!

That's it! You haven't formatted the drive. You need to format it (do NTFS Quick Format) and it will be ready to go. It says "RAW" because the drive is not formatted.

 

[BaronBamboo]

oh you guys rock, thank you soo much for the help PC_User

going to format, wooh gotta love this forum