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by bobramos

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How do I format a Firewire harddrive attached to a Athlon 600 running Win XP professional? Its attached, shows up in Device Manager but not shown in "my computer". Or how do I get it to appear a one of the physical drives present and usable on my system?
Answer personally please to bobramos@si.rr.com

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by timwalsh

You still have to partition and format the drive.

Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Storage | Disk Management.

Use Disk Manger to partition and format the drive. Then it will show up (and be usable) in "My Computer" and Windows Explorer.

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