External Problems
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External Problems
I recently bought a Seagate 1TB External Hardrive.But my Laptop WON'T read it.Is there anyway to fix this
- Kariudo
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Re: External Problems
have you formatted the external yet?
I think externals are usually formatted as fat32 (out of the factory) but there's a disk size limit on FAT32 partitions. Try going to disk manager (if you're using Windows, right-click my computer->manage->disk management) and see if it comes up there (and if it does, try formatting as NTFS)
I think externals are usually formatted as fat32 (out of the factory) but there's a disk size limit on FAT32 partitions. Try going to disk manager (if you're using Windows, right-click my computer->manage->disk management) and see if it comes up there (and if it does, try formatting as NTFS)
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Re: External Problems
I see no "Disk Management"Kariudo wrote:have you formatted the external yet?
I think externals are usually formatted as fat32 (out of the factory) but there's a disk size limit on FAT32 partitions. Try going to disk manager (if you're using Windows, right-click my computer->manage->disk management) and see if it comes up there (and if it does, try formatting as NTFS)
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Re: External Problems
shouldn't matter, as USB2.0 is backwards compatible with USB1.1_Sanchez_ wrote:Does your labtop have USB2.0?
try start -> run and type in diskmgmt.msc
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Re: External Problems
I did as u said,But then this popped up so what nowKariudo wrote: try start -> run and type in diskmgmt.msc
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Re: External Problems
hmm, well I don't know any more tricks. See if it works on another computer and if it doesn't then try to return it for another external drive