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External Hardrive help

  • 25-10-2014 8:19pm
    #1
    matt360
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭


    I have a Seagate Portable 2.0 USB Hard drive. I'm trying to connect it to my hp pavilion
    15-n090sa laptop. I was messing around with it trying to use it as a hard drive for a ps3.
    The problem now is that when I connect it now, it registers that I've connected it but it doesn't show up when I look for it in 'This PC'
    I can find it under devices but it doesn't allow me to do anything with it and I cant view anything on it.
    Also I cant 'Send to' from the hard drive on my laptop.
    Cheers for any help,
    Matt.


Comments

  • #2
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Any valuable data on it?
    You should see it in DiskManagement, and be able to delete/create partitions or format them from there


  • #3
    matt360
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭matt360


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Any valuable data on it?
    You should see it in DiskManagement, and be able to delete/create partitions or format them from there

    No there is nothing important on it. I can see it in dusk management. I'll try and format it now.
    Thanks.


  • #4
    duckflyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭duckflyr


    External drives often have manufacturers software on them that sometimes fail. If you format it and still has issues zero the drive for like 5 minutes, or the entire drive if you want. You don't need the software anyway for what you would be doing I imagine.


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