![]() I am not a computer savvy as you may noticed but hope this helps. And for my case again, it is only after this that I can format and use the disk afterwards. For my case, it's only after this that the disk is detected in My Computer (along the process you'll get to choose a drive letter for your disk). I forgot how, if I'm not wrong just right click to your disk identified in Disk Management as Disk1 or whatever and you should be able to work your way through like what I did. After that, if format option is not available, go and create a partition for your disk. It is asking you to "initialize" your disk, go ahead and "initialize it". Online Download Hard drive explorer full version and install on windows 10, 8, 7 etc. Go to disk management using the specified method or control panel, then there should be a pop-up coming out other than your disk management window. SysTools Hard Drive Viewer is Freeware Tool to open, read, explore HDD & make easy to view FAT, NTFS, GPT, MBR partition data. I don't know whether djcutler still needs this but anyway, there's a chance that your disk (especially when it's brand new), is not yet formatted yet which happens to my brand new 80GB external hard drive. Thanx to the reply for disk management and I found out how to 'activate' an external disk drive.
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