Thread: I"ve got an unformatted HDD and a laptop...anyway I can format this bad boy?
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Old 08-01-2007, 01:11 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by jthig32
I could be wrong, but I don't think your laptop not recognizing it as a drive and not assigning it a drive letter has anything to do with whether it's formatted or not. I've had problems arise with flashdirves that are working fine but for whatever reason the OS won't establish it as a drive.

I would try the detect new hardware like ninkobei said.

Also, after you plug it in you should go to Disk Management (assuming this is windows) and see if it has it listed there as unformatted/unpartitioned disk space.
Did go to disk management and it was not detected. Could be a bad adapter but I'm going to investigate some of the USB settings and also make sure I have a formatted drive to stick inthe adapter.
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