Hard drive invisible and impossible to format
I post this message because I really need help. I want to clarify that before posting this message, I have already done some research on the net and I really could not solve my problem myself. I got an external hard disk Maxtor Basics 500 GB USB 2.0. But when I plugged it into my computer (Packard Bell laptop, with XP SP3), it does not appear in My Computer and the computer does not assign any letter (like F: / for example). I tried with several USB ports, the same result. I did go to 'Disk Management' and I partitioned it. The problem is that even after partitioning, it is impossible to format (an error message appears: "The operation could not complete because the partition or volume is not enabled. To enable the partition or volume, please restart the computer "- what I have done many times, which did not help), and that the letter that I assigned manually gets erased after a reboot. Have you got any idea what is happening? Thank you
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