Problems accessing my external hard drive

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 15:38

Hey,

Have a Seagate external hard drive that I plug in, is recognised by Win 7 as present, installed and faultless, yet I cannot seem to find any way to access it under 'My Computer'. Any ideas?

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 15:49

thanks for the help so far, it's excellent. I followed you instructions and found the drive, I just cannot seem to locate the 'Change drive letter and paths' option.

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 15:50

google and found it, it's a right click. However, it's greyed out.

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 15:59

Shows a Healthy 200 MB (EFI system Partition) and a healthy 931.19 GB (Primary Partition). One thing I must add is that I've only been using this on the Mac and plugged it in for the first time on my Windows PC. Does it need another format?

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 16:10

Not sure if it is. It just worked on Mac. Currently playing around with Partition Magic 8.0 to see if I can format it again but it don't work too well under Win7

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 16:30

Turns out it's not NTFS formatted and when I tried to format it with the Seagate Installation software, it just says it failed without any further prompting on how to solve this.

regulus · 19 Dec 2009 at 17:16

Wrestled with it for the last hour and sorted it with DiscWizard from Seagate. Now formatted with NTFS, working and not being touched again... ever