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Solve : EXTERNAL DRIVE NOT ASSIGNED A LETTER? |
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Answer» I HAVE AN EXTERNAL DRIVE HOOKED UP AND MY PC RECOGNIZES THAT IT IS THERE BUT WILL NOT ASSIGN A LETTER TO IT, THEREFORE I CANNOT OPEN THAT DRIVE??Open Disc Management. What happens there?WHERE WOULD I TRY THAT?Start - Run - diskmgmt.msc You can turn off the capslock now... Quote says it is "Unallocated" I LOVE it when someone suggest a fix and it works immediately. Good catch, Patio! Quote from: MJACQUEZ on March 09, 2012, 09:32:45 AM It says it is "Unallocated" Is this a new hard drive?UsedRight clik the Unallocated section in Disk Management...select allocate...when it's done do the same and select Format... NTFS should be the file system chosen. Quote from: MJACQUEZ on March 09, 2012, 09:37:44 AM Used Although I FULLY agree with Patio's post I think this guy might be trying to hook up a hard drive with data on it? After all it is "used". Whatever that may mean. Worked like a charm, thanks very much. Now I am going to try on a flash drive with the same problem.NOTE: With both external HDD's and flash drives remember to get into the habit of using the "Safely Remove" widget in the tray to prevent losing all data...Guess there was no data on there WORTH keeping. |
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