I just bought a new 320 gb WD SATA hard drive and a new enclosure for it but I'm having trouble getting my computer to recognize it. I can see the drive in device manager, but I can't figure out how to format it.

I'm also using a USB 2.0 card and was wondering if I'm missing some piece of hardware to make it work?

4/13/2006 2:59:57 PM

right click my computer -> manage -> disk management -> right click (try random places if you can't figure it out yet) -> format

you can easily google this you idiot

4/13/2006 3:02:07 PM

omarbadu - 1
jcash - 0

4/13/2006 3:04:50 PM

I'm not sure which is worse - not formatting a new drive or putting a SATA in an external enclosure

4/13/2006 3:59:55 PM

^ Agreed

4/13/2006 5:53:42 PM

^^ I'm not sure which is worse - understanding your joke or not understanding your joke

4/13/2006 6:48:52 PM

i'm sure he means speed

4/13/2006 7:35:02 PM

well hell, HD's are pretty fricking cheap these days and sometimes you can get SATA drives cheaper......or at least I have

but yes I do see the joke/point made

4/13/2006 8:55:01 PM

^^^^^ they make external sata enclosures with sata interface, so whats wrong with using a sata drive externally?

4/14/2006 2:56:58 AM

^

Hes a fucking retard, making a joke that inst even technically funny.

Ignore him, its common.

Welcome to tech talk

4/14/2006 11:15:46 AM

^ damnit i'm an idiot.

4/14/2006 8:17:43 PM