Can someone help me with my portable hard drive?

[frugal.tea]

all, I just got a Verbatim FireWire FireLite Portable hard drive and need some help with it. When I connect it to my Vista computer, it doesn't appear in the Computer section of the Windows Explorer. The hard drive is pre-formatted for Mac and I need to format it for Windows too. Thanks

Here's a link to the manual:

http://www.verbatim.com/UserFiles/Fi...User_Guide.pdf

[FallenPixels]

hmmm mine asked me if I wanted to format it when I plugged it in - have you tried it on another computer to see if there is a fault somewhere?

[Stuff]

right click on my computer - goto manage

the computer management screen shows up

goto disk management screen

your drive should show up on there - click on it

at the bottom it should show your partition information.

right click and format. this will delete any information on that drive!

if you are wanting to use it for mac and windows, all i can suggest is making the partions half the size of the hard drive. I dunno how to get mac to see windows and vice versa.

[frugal.tea]

hmmm mine asked me if I wanted to format it when I plugged it in - have you tried it on another computer to see if there is a fault somewhere?

nope, I haven't tried it on another system

right click on my computer - goto manage

the computer management screen shows up

goto disk management screen

your drive should show up on there - click on it

at the bottom it should show your partition information.

right click and format. this will delete any information on that drive!

if you are wanting to use it for mac and windows, all i can suggest is making the partions half the size of the hard drive. I dunno how to get mac to see windows and vice versa.

I see the drive at the bottom but not at the top. When I right click, there's no format option Here's what I see: