you liked it at $100...

[qwikz28]

Originally Posted by Knipps

If you can access it from your laptop you can format it from your laptop

i have no idea how to though.

Originally Posted by Saitin

the drive should have come with a disk

it did and it was utterly useless as it was designed for windows 98

[Saitin]

go into your bios and if you can see it in there you should have the option of formatting it.\
or try this with the hard drive connected.
right click my computer go to manage select disk management that should display the hard drives you have and if the computer is detecting the hard drive it should be listed as a separate drive showing the new space as unallocated space then just right click and select new partition and follow on screen directions if it is not listed there then windows is not detecting the drive and you might have to try formatting it as a slave drive through another computer using a xp install disc if that doesn't work it might be a bad drive

[Tru2Chevy]

Originally Posted by Saitin

right click my computer go to manage select disk management that should display the hard drives you have and if the computer is detecting the hard drive it should be listed as a separate drive showing the new space as unallocated space then just right click and select new partition and follow on screen directions if it is not listed there then windows is not detecting the drive and you might have to try formatting it as a slave drive through another computer using a xp install disc if that doesn't work it might be a bad drive

This should work for you....

- Justin

[qwikz28]

Originally Posted by Saitin

go into your bios and if you can see it in there you should have the option of formatting it.\
or try this with the hard drive connected.
right click my computer go to manage select disk management that should display the hard drives you have and if the computer is detecting the hard drive it should be listed as a separate drive showing the new space as unallocated space then just right click and select new partition and follow on screen directions if it is not listed there then windows is not detecting the drive and you might have to try formatting it as a slave drive through another computer using a xp install disc if that doesn't work it might be a bad drive

thank you!!!!!!! i have vista so its slightly different but i gathered enough context clues to figure it out from what you said. thanks again man. i really wanted to back up all my application material ASAP. its formatting now. its gonna take a while, 3% in 15 minutes...

[Tru2Chevy]

Ahh....you should have just done a quick format.

- Justin

[qwikz28]

Originally Posted by Tru2Chevy

Ahh....you should have just done a quick format.

- Justin

ended up having to cancel it. i'll try a quick format now

[Saitin]

glad it helped in some way let me know if you have any other problems.