1: I am not comfortable with the fact that i am having a 300MB partition which has some data (drivers etc) and WD specific software.
2: I formatted rest of my partition with GPARTED to NTFS. This partition is now visible to my windowsXP SPII, but when i plug it in Windows 7 (64 bit) it doesn’t show up. I can see that 300MB partition but the other parittion is not showing up. What should i do?
I have tried installing the update WD software, i have installed the 64 bit driviers from that 300MB partition but nothing works. Windows shows me that new hardware has been installed and ready to use, but when i go to My Computer i see nothing.
Re: External HDD not being visible on Win7(64 bit)
WIn7 hides empty drives by default, that might be it?
(I think this is to hide all the card reader drive letters which are annoying to look at).
change folder pemissions to show all empty drives too..
Re: External HDD not being visible on Win7(64 bit)
go to Computer,
then press ALT for the FileMenu,
go to Tools > Folder Options
select ‘View’ from the tabs above
unselect 'hide empty drives from the computer folder;.
See if this makes a difference, if it doesn’t then try this.
right click on Computer
select Manage
Select ‘Disk Management’ (on the left)
look for your external drive and check if the partition in question has a drive letter assigned to it.
(if it doesn’t; then)
right click on the partition in question and look for a drive letter option.
Re: External HDD not being visible on Win7(64 bit)
I believe it will work .. I have tried to format the drive using GPARTED Linux Os. It worked fine. I will updated if things go bad.
One side question.
Is it possible to get rid of that 300MB partition on my HDD which acts as boot something? Probably its HDD MBR which i don’t want. But i couldn’t see it when i browsed my hdd using GPARTED.