I need help lost inst. Win 7 having issues formating drive or getting it going. Any advice? Website wasn't useful
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I don't understand your question. Are you saying that you lost the instructions for the Rosewill external drive? If you have placed the hard drive into the enclosure correctly and Windows 7 is not recognizing the drive then I ask "How is the drive connected to your machine"? If it is eSATA then I know that some motherboards seem to have a problem. The best solution is to use USB and there should be no complications. Please clarify!
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Device manager in control panel. Find an HDD that fits the location it's connected and call up properties.
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It has been formatted from the factory as NTFS which works with Windows OS, including Windows 7. No need to worry.
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the drive is not formatted with any version of windows. it is formatted with a run time version of linux.it handles the formatting. the windows 8 machines should see it in the network browser. did you set up user rights?
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My unit has trouble working with any of our Windows machines here (Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, etc.) It will take about a minute to create a directory, about a minute to rename it, cannot do a findfirst, cannot display files in any requested order (date, size). I see that other reviewers had no problem with theirs, so my troubles are possibly with my unit. But none of us trust the drive, and no one is using it.
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My drive wouldn't mount on most of my computers, and would hammer and click for a while before showing up on one. Another computer started working just fine, so I just used it there, but the drive letters started switching all around before it just wouldn't mount anymore. I opened it up, very difficult to do, thinking I'd be able to mount and recover the data but it looks like won't be that easy. I'd try another computer, and take your data off it and consider it unreliable
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I found that I did have trouble if i tried to plug into an external USB extension and had to go directly into the computer - but it sounds like you already did that so I'm not sure. Did you try to just bring up a Windows explorer session and see if there is new drive listed?
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I am not quite sure since this was for my son and he used it. I said Used it because just last week when he turned it on he was asked to format it. We took it to a computer store to get it looked at and they said it was no data on the drive to recover. It had a bad sector and won't work. So we are in the process to see what we should do now. Soooo upset since we had just bought this November 26, 2011. Sorry that I could not help you.
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I put in a drive with data on it and windows wouldn't recognize it unless I formatted it first. Works fine after formatting, but I had to backup all of my data before using the drive.
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No u have to format.. partition.. and load Windows 7..if it's a new drive u have to do a fresh install..
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i'm not sure about win 8 but go to control panel - administrative tools - computer management - and under storage - disk management. u should be able to see your new drive, right click and format your new hdd. hope it helped
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You're using Windows 8! JK. It workes great on my Win 8 rig. The drivers it installs are for the HDD itself. Try using a different USB port. If that doesn't work check the Disk Management utility for your HDD and go from there.
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I have the Seagate 2tb and I also run Windows 7 and it just asked me to upload an out of date app but it works. That's all I can tell you.
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Not an expert, but you may try reformatting the usb drive in FAT32 structure.
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The drive may not be formatted or formatted with the right file system, you can check that in disk management or the drive could be bad but most likely needs correct format. I just tested mine with my Windows 8 laptop and it works fine.
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Actually, disregard my previous response. I had this drive, but it was a 2TB model, not 3TB. There's a limit of 2.19TB for older Windows version (including Win 7) unless you have hardware that supports GPT partitioning, which I honestly don't know much about at this time. I'd recommend going with a 2TB version to be on the safe side.
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No it's a blank hard drive. You will need to format to what ever operating system u are using.
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probably if you can get it work at all! Every restart I did resulted in it loosing the date and needing reformat (that was two new drives! both same problem).