please helllllllpppppp - invisible drive?

KATTY786 · Oct 29, 2008, 08:45 PM

hi guys, im new to this so please forgive me if i ask u anything which sounds dumb...lol

i recently bought a sata samsung hard drive to go into a media player.
the media player is a sumvision cyclone player. needs a FAT32 format as it states in the manual but it just wount do it...arrrrgggghhhhh

its connect to my computer via a usb 2.0 connection and the bios recognises the drive upon loading, its also there when i open disk management however in my computer its not there?

unless my computer suddenly thinks it wants to do huddini on me wot do i do to format the usb drive???? please someone help..........

RoyBatty · Oct 29, 2008, 09:16 PM

Hi KATTY786,
you need to create a partition on the new drive. This article explains it better than I would

: How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows (the article is for XP, but it should be the same in Vista)

Oct 29, 2008, 08:45 PM	#1
KATTY786 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	please helllllllpppppp - invisible drive? hi guys, im new to this so please forgive me if i ask u anything which sounds dumb...lol i recently bought a sata samsung hard drive to go into a media player. the media player is a sumvision cyclone player. needs a FAT32 format as it states in the manual but it just wount do it...arrrrgggghhhhh its connect to my computer via a usb 2.0 connection and the bios recognises the drive upon loading, its also there when i open disk management however in my computer its not there? unless my computer suddenly thinks it wants to do huddini on me wot do i do to format the usb drive???? please someone help..........

Oct 29, 2008, 09:16 PM	#2
RoyBatty HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Czech Republic Posts: 1,930 Rep Power: 115 System Specs	Re: please helllllllpppppp - invisible drive? Hi KATTY786, you need to create a partition on the new drive. This article explains it better than I would : How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows (the article is for XP, but it should be the same in Vista)