Solve : Freecom DAT72 external USB drive help needed please?

1.	Solve : Freecom DAT72 external USB drive help needed please?
Answer» Hi people, my 1ST post here, hope you can help!.. Here GOES.. I bought the above drive today with a view to backing up my old DVD backup's and rather huge music collection etc...the drive is powered on and device manager confirms that its working ok with the drivers and the bubble thingy pops up confirming this but am I missing something? (dumb?), I have a 500gb HD that is rapidly running out of space! Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated, thanks.Did you format the HDD before using it? you mean the seperate one? thats ok, its just the DAT drive thats a pain, maybe i need another BEER or something..This could be a CD...DVD...hard...jump...or other type of drive. Can you be a little more specific so we can offer help ? ? Quote from: tmc101 on April 18, 2007, 03:36:20 PM you mean the seperate one? thats ok, its just the DAT drive thats a pain, maybe i need another beer or something.. Come again? sorry, its been kinda a long day, the DAT drive basically PLUGS into the back of my laptop usb port, the light is green on the dat drive, maybe I've not got the correct SOFTWARE installed for this? It came bundled with yosemite backup software, the drivers for the drive are all installed correctly but the dat drive doesn't come up in my computer.What flavor of Windows ? ? If Win2K or later such as XP right click My Computer and select manage...then from there select Disk Management...does it show up there ? If so right clik the drive in Disk Management and again select properties and tell us what it says...Quote from: tmc101 on April 18, 2007, 03:44:50 PM sorry, its been kinda a long day, the DAT drive basically plugs into the back of my laptop usb port, the light is green on the dat drive, maybe I've not got the correct software installed for this? It came bundled with yosemite backup software, the drivers for the drive are all installed correctly but the dat drive doesn't come up in my computer. Like I said, you format it before using it? You might even need to partition it first in the disk manager.

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Hi people, my 1ST post here, hope you can help!..

Here GOES.. I bought the above drive today with a view to backing up my old DVD backup's and rather huge music collection etc...the drive is powered on and device manager confirms that its working ok with the drivers and the bubble thingy pops up confirming this but am I missing something? (dumb?), I have a 500gb HD that is rapidly running out of space! Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated, thanks.Did you format the HDD before using it? you mean the seperate one? thats ok, its just the DAT drive thats a pain, maybe i need another BEER or something..This could be a CD...DVD...hard...jump...or other type of drive.

Can you be a little more specific so we can offer help ? ?

Quote from: tmc101 on April 18, 2007, 03:36:20 PM

you mean the seperate one? thats ok, its just the DAT drive thats a pain, maybe i need another beer or something..

Come again? sorry, its been kinda a long day, the DAT drive basically PLUGS into the back of my laptop usb port, the light is green on the dat drive, maybe I've not got the correct SOFTWARE installed for this? It came bundled with yosemite backup software, the drivers for the drive are all installed correctly but the dat drive doesn't come up in my computer.What flavor of Windows ? ?
If Win2K or later such as XP right click My Computer and select manage...then from there select Disk Management...does it show up there ?
If so right clik the drive in Disk Management and again select properties and tell us what it says...Quote from: tmc101 on April 18, 2007, 03:44:50 PM

sorry, its been kinda a long day, the DAT drive basically plugs into the back of my laptop usb port, the light is green on the dat drive, maybe I've not got the correct software installed for this? It came bundled with yosemite backup software, the drivers for the drive are all installed correctly but the dat drive doesn't come up in my computer.

Like I said, you format it before using it? You might even need to partition it first in the disk manager.

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