buffalo hdd not detected by win-7


  1. robisok
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    buffalo hdd not detected by win-7


    sorry that is not exactly true win-7 does see it but it is unallocated. I have tried to innitialize it but i just get error messages and i have tried to update the drivers but it says that they are up to date so maybe i just need to allocate it but i dont know how. Thankyou for any help
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  3. torrentg
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    If there's nothing you want to keep on it, right click it in disk management and format it to NTFS.

    If there is stuff to keep, look online for a partition repair utility.
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  4. robisok
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    torrentg said:
    If there's nothing you want to keep on it, right click it in disk management and format it to NTFS.

    If there is stuff to keep, look online for a partition repair utility.
    Thankyou for the advise but i seem to have sorted the problem out how i dont quite understand but it is working. I just simply turned the power of the hdd off and then back on and it recognized it so there you go lol!!!!
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  6. Tews
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    Glad you got it working!!
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