external usb drive help please
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external usb drive help please
Hi chaps - have been using these external usb drives for some time now and decided to upgrade to a larger capacity unit. Have bought 2 western digital 2.5" drives each of 100 gig capacity and neither of them function in the vaio caddy I have. They spin up and seem to be read for half a second, they are recognised by windows which loads the driver but they never appear in explorer. If I check the properties of them it comes up with "populate" I do this and it shows information relevant to the disc but the window beneath doesn't show any drive letter as of course I guess they haven't been formatted. Any ideas at all? Seems strange that both are the same. Tried in my laptop and on my mates pc.
Appreciate your thoughts.
Fowler.
Appreciate your thoughts.
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........ and a rather dim light brightens! Some times I am such a divvy. Managed it under control panel/ administritive tools. Its allowed me to format it now. I post this in case anyone else is shrouded in a similar dimness. 
