This is the situation. I'm running Vista OS. I bought an Icy Box HD station and a brand new HD. The HD is now formatted and appears in Disk Management as 'New Volume' and everything looks fine. It has no letter assigned to it even though I had selected to call it 'Z'. When I look at 'Computer' all my internal HDs and other devices and removable storage items appear but not this HD. It's clearly there but not showing where I can make any use of it e.g. backup. When I look at the 'Devices' it shows a 'Generic External USB device'. So I assume this is the Icy Box. Is this a 'path' issue? Can anyone offer a solution please? I'm not technical, just the basics.
Continuing problem with HD recognition
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did you created a volume and formated it? That's in computer management -> disk management.
Thanks for your reply
I did not designate a volume name which is probably why it defaulted to 'new Volume'. It is definitely formatted to NTFS and shows as a 'Healthy (Primary Partition)'. If I right-click on the cross-hatched section of the window for this drive I get the following options: 'Mark partition as Active', or 'Change Drive letter and Path', or 'Format'. If I right-click on the grey section to the right of the window for this drive I get: 'Covert to Dynamic Disk'. I'm baffled!
I did not designate a volume name which is probably why it defaulted to 'new Volume'. It is definitely formatted to NTFS and shows as a 'Healthy (Primary Partition)'. If I right-click on the cross-hatched section of the window for this drive I get the following options: 'Mark partition as Active', or 'Change Drive letter and Path', or 'Format'. If I right-click on the grey section to the right of the window for this drive I get: 'Covert to Dynamic Disk'. I'm baffled!
I think I've sorted the problem. I went into 'Change Drive letter and Path' then selected 'Z' and as soon as I'd done this the pc seemed to pick it up straight away. It now shows in 'Computer' as a HD rather than as Removable STorage (which is where I expected it to be). I'll see what happens when I switch off then restart the Icy Box. Yep, it's picked it up now. Thanks to everyone who offered advice.