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Hard Drive issues

bobfree · 2013-01-31 19:38:06

Recently got a WD 2TB external hard drive,woudnt work with my xbox so had to format it to FAT32 but it won't recognise on my computer anymore. Its showing up in device manager but nowhere else :( Anyone know how this can be rectified?

31-01-2013 7:38pm

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bobfree

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Recently got a WD 2TB external hard drive,woudnt work with my xbox so had to format it to FAT32 but it won't recognise on my computer anymore.

Its showing up in device manager but nowhere else Anyone know how this can be rectified?

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#2 31-01-2013 7:41pm

bonzodog2

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Delete all partitions in DM, then create a new one and format to FAT32 on the PC

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#3 31-01-2013 7:48pm

bobfree

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Thank you for your help turns out that I had to allocate a letter to it... Such a simple fix! Now I just hope my xbox picks it up

Thank you again

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