Hard drive problem

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spike47

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Hi
I have just purchased a 60 gig 2.5" IDE hdd from ebay , I have put it into my external caddy that I use to keep downloaded films on , It shows up in Device manager , but not in windows Explorer in XP.

When I try it on another PC with Windows 7 it shows up in My "Computer" and it says within the box ,” System Reserved” .

Has anyone got any idea as to what that means , I have tried to go FILE FORMAT , but it says it can not do .
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I am still waiting for a reply from the ebay member that sold it to me .

Cheers
spike
 
Right click on my computer and pick manage. From there expand the storage tree and then clik on disk management. You should see the external drive listed in the right pane, right click on it you should be able to create/delete partitions and format from there. You may need to select initialize first but that should already be done.
 
Hi cromewell

Thanks for your reply , It does not show under disc management , it does however show up in device manager .
spike
 
Are you able to open the external drive and remove the hard drive? If so, try connecting the drive internally and see if it works.
 
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