External hard drive

jaymac_2

The medion one I bought from Aldi died....while I was reformatting my HD:-(

frowner

Steve_xx wrote: »

What about this 500gb one from Comet:

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product.do?sku=567795&cm_ven=Affiliatewindow&cm_cat=Textlink&cm_pla=Generic&cm_ite=Generic&cm_ven=AFFILIATEWINDOW&cm_mmc=AW-_-OfferoftheDay-_-links-_-generic

£36.99 but reduces to £33.29 if you use the voucher code 10allhd

hi all,

brought one of these at the weekend and being a complete pc novice I thought I would just plug it in , connect to pc and away we go. But I cannot get the harddrive to show anywhere on my computer, no icon or anything but when I go to safely remove hardware option it says it is working properly. Any advice greatly received. I have windows vista.

missymugwump

Bought this 1TB Seagate from Dabs.com £64.36

http://www.dabs.com/products/seagate-1tb-expansion-usb-3-5--5K36.html

colinstevens

frowner wrote: »

hi all,

brought one of these at the weekend and being a complete pc novice I thought I would just plug it in , connect to pc and away we go. But I cannot get the harddrive to show anywhere on my computer, no icon or anything but when I go to safely remove hardware option it says it is working properly. Any advice greatly received. I have windows vista.

Try 'Right' clicking on 'My Computer' then 'Manage' in 'Disk Management' see if you have a new disk in there of around 500GB. If so you should be able to 'Right click' the disk and 'Initialise' it...

Colin

frowner

colinstevens wrote: »

Try 'Right' clicking on 'My Computer' then 'Manage' in 'Disk Management' see if you have a new disk in there of around 500GB. If so you should be able to 'Right click' the disk and 'Initialise' it...

Colin

Hi Colin,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Followed your instructions and initialised it, but still can't seem to open it. Any further pearls of wisdom greatly appreciated.

Regards
Diane

colinstevens

frowner wrote: »

Hi Colin,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Followed your instructions and initialised it, but still can't seem to open it. Any further pearls of wisdom greatly appreciated.

Regards
Diane

Next step is to assign it a letter in 'Computer Management' - ('Right' Click the Drive then 'Assign Drive Letter') - then it probably needs a Quick format.. again 'right' click the drive and press 'format' (make sure you have the correct disk highlighted!!) - hopefully then it will appear in My Computer!

cjb02

these are the ones in Tesco;s

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-2219.aspx

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-4435.aspx

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-6510.aspx

Sneezy

the 1tb seagate are fantastic - just plug it in and save away!

frowner

colinstevens wrote: »

Next step is to assign it a letter in 'Computer Management' - ('Right' Click the Drive then 'Assign Drive Letter') - then it probably needs a Quick format.. again 'right' click the drive and press 'format' (make sure you have the correct disk highlighted!!) - hopefully then it will appear in My Computer!

Thank-you so much for your help. Have got it all working perfectly now. You are a superstar!!!

Kind regards
Diane