Thanks for your advice, Mike. When I run Computer Management under "Storage -> Disk Management" I get a window telling me that I "must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it". The external USB disk is shown as Disk 3.
It asks me which partition style I want to use:
* MBR (Master Boot Record) (selected) or
* GPT (GUID Partition Table)
There's also a note telling me that the GPT partition style is not recognized by all previous version etc.
I cancelled it fearing that my HDD would get formatted and my precious data lost.
Can someone shed some light into this? I have no idea what the above means or what it will do to my data of my external HDD.
More info: The hard drive is an old Maxtor, model
, the external enclose is made by Rosewill (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182153).
Edit: Can't get the inserted link to work
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