Dan Waters
dwaters at usinternet.com
Wed Mar 1 15:01:30 CST 2006
Yes! That got me on track. First, of course I had to connect to BOTH rows of pins on the drive, not just one row. And I needed to connect to a USB port with enough power. Then the disk manager actually saw the new disk (it was looking at the disk drive in my printer which I forgot was there). And now, my new disk is 24% formatted and going! Thanks Bobby! Dan -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:02 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New External Backup Drive I just got a new drive and enclosure. This is what I had to do. I had to right-click on the disk in disk manager and click on Initialize before it would let me partition and format the drive. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:30 AM To: DBA-Tech Subject: [dba-Tech] New External Backup Drive Hello all you hardware experts! I just got a new WD 2.5" 60 Gb HD that I want to use as an external backup drive. I have a NexStar enclosure that currently has my laptop's original 20 Gb drive in it. (The laptop now has a WD 60 Gb HD). I want to upsize so that I can backup using Ghost to backup the entire drive on my laptop. However, when I install the new drive into the enclosure and plug it in, the disk is not recognized. I went to Device Manager and found that the USB Mass Storage Device Driver is listed, but has a yellow exclamation mark, and the error given is Device Can't Start (Code 10). I went to Disk Management under Administrative Tools, and the disk is recognized, but says that media is not installed. I suspect that I need to format (or partition) this new disk before it will work correctly. How can I do that if the laptop can't run this disk to begin with? Should I put it into the laptop as though I was starting with a new laptop drive? Or . . . ? Thanks! Dan _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com