From: Pieter Bos <bos.pieter_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 12:27:54 +0200

The disk might not be partitioned.

In windows XP, click start->run...
type compmgmt.msc
click ok.

At the left side of the window that appears, there is a 'storage part'. The
disk management is beneath this item. If the disk is shown there, it might
have 1 TB of empty space. Right click on the empty space and there should be
a 'new paritition button. Use that to partition the drive, then format it.

A driver or a CD certainly should not be necessary. Also check the manual,
which contains the information which i just gave you:
http://www.lacie.com/download/manual/bigdisk_triple_extreme_en.pdf .
If you only use the disk in windows XP, be sure to format it with NTFS. If
you want to use FAT32, find another partitioning tool as the windows xp disk
management would limit you to 32 GB partitions.

Pieter


"Rob Powell" <rob_at_rinty.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Yeh a lot of music, around 500GB worth, and none of it downloaded
> illegally!!!. I've been collecting for a long long time!. I'll try that,
> thanks.
>
> Rob
>
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> On
> Behalf Of Rocker
> Sent: 29 May 2006 00:04
> To: Rockbox
> Subject: Re: to but I need some help
>
> One TB? What did that set you back? Sounds like yall have a lot of
> music!
> You will need to format the disk in order to use it. When I added an
> external HD XP Pro asked me if I wanted to format it when I plugged it in.
> Try disconnecting it and restarting your PC then reconnecting the HD.
> Also
> you should download the manual and take a look at it as well.
>
> hth...rocker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Powell" <rob_at_rinty.plus.com>
> To: "'Rockbox'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 4:40 PM
> Subject: to but I need some help
>
>
> Hi, I've just bought a Lacie bigger disk extreme 1TB external hard disk,
> to
> store my music and so on. It's recognised in device manager under win XP,
> however it's not there in my computer. I've installed Swiss knife, but
> again it's not seen in the list of disk drives. Clearly the computer has
> recognised it. Because no volumes appear when I select the properties
> under
> device manager for it, I'm assuming it's not formatted. U unfortunately
> there was supposed to be a CDROM with it, but it wasn't there. I've not
> tried the Microsoft disk management tool, as I can't find it. Any
> suggestions, I've looked on the web-site, but can't find the drivers for
> this unit. If anyone could find the drivers for me, ad email the download
> link, or even email the drivers, it would be a great help.
>
> thanks very much,
>
> Rob
>
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