SOURCE: simple tech mini 320 gb external hard drive
You might need to initialize the drive.
Right click on “My Computer” or “Computer” on Vista.
Select “Manage”
On the next screen select “Disk Management”
In the lower middle section you should be able to find your drive.
It will show up as Disk 1 or Disk 2….depending on how many drives you have in your computer.
If you click on the area that says Disk # you should get and option to “initialize drive”.
Also to the right it should show the allocation information for the drive. If it says “unallocated” then the drive needs to be partitioned.
Right click on the white box next to the drive listing.
Select the option “New Partition”
This will bring up the partition wizard and you will need to step through this process.
Select a primary partition.
On the next screen accept the maximum size it will provide.
On the next screen you assign a drive letter.
On the next screen you will do the format and accept the default settings.
The formatting will start and will be busy until it is complete.
You can monitor this from the disk management window.
SOURCE: simple tech problem
windows 2000 detects the driver for plug n play drives for it self and if it doesnt then try driverguide.com for drivers of the disk.
SOURCE: Simple Tech SP U25/60 external hard drive
Almost nothing is supported on Win 2000 because it had shuch a short life span. most new tech made in the last 2-3 years only runs onXP or Vista. Every once in a while some will work back to 98.
p.s. did it say it was compatable with 2000? look on the box
SOURCE: I need driver software for my external hard drive
I checked for one on SimpleTech's (Hitachi) website. The only show a driver for Windows 98. This leads me to think you don't need any drivers. USB is hot pluggable. Just plug the drive in. Windows XP/Vista/NT will plug a driver in for you (a USB driver). Drive will be given an access letter. You can then access like any other drive from Windows Explorer. Sometimes, USB drives have additional software on them (known as firmware) that you can then run directly from the drive. The firmware is not require to use the drive, but may offer features like backup software.
SOURCE: I have a simple tech external not registering
Of chechked and/or done all of the the above but my SimpleTech 160gb Ext Drive is not recognized at atll (not even in Disk Mgmt or Device Mgr) but it has power. It works just fine in my new laptop. So the problems is obviously the older Toshiba w/WinXP. The product has not CD and is no longer being supported my company. What else can I do?
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