HD not showing up

[MitaDC]

Hey I am wanting to back up my moms important files like once a week. I put in an old 6gb hd I have and I booted to windows and it at the bottom right of the screen it says new hardware, disk drive detected etc. I go to the device manager and it shows its there but it isn't showing up in my computer....

Any ideas??
TY

[MitaDC]

Just went to another site and it said that the os recommends that the drive be empty. That is fine but how am I suppost to format it without seeing it?? is there a command prompt I can use?

[Bill in SD, CA]

What OS are you using?

Bill

[MitaDC]

xp...the drive that I want to format has linux on it right now...

[Bill in SD, CA]

Have you checked the drive in disk management?

Bill

[MitaDC]

in the device manager?? If that is what u r talking about then yes. It shows up there but not in My Computer....

[Bill in SD, CA]

Right click on My Computer > click on Manage > then click on Disk Management.

If the drive is there right click on it and choose > Format.

Bill

[MitaDC]

K that worked..now how do I set up like an auto-back up for like once a week??

I know how to set it up so it is auto backup but how do I choose certain files to be backed up?? I only need a few to be backed up not my whole hard drive. The drive that I'm backing up to is 4gb and my master drive is 80gb.

[MitaDC]

Starting new thread go to that one

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t91312.html

[Bill in SD, CA]

Glad to help!

At this point I'd start a new thread as I am by no means a "backup" guru!

Bill

EDIT: I type slow.