-How would I go about doing this? I remember reformatting the whole thing to be able to use it with my PS3. By doing this it put it in some wierd format that only the PS3 would recognize and now I can't reformat it back to fat32 or whatever. When I tried pluggin it into my two PCs (one XP, the other Windows 7), both of them popped up with an unrecognized usb device error. -Now I'm assuming that this problem might be solved if I reinstalled drivers for my external? My problem is though that I cant find drivers for it (Maxtor On Touch III). -Is this the only solution to this problem? Or I was also wondering if there was software that could detect all mass storage devices (and hopefully reformat them) even if they were undetectable by default in windows. -Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
Does it show up in disc management (right click my comp, manage, disk management), if so can you right click the drive (Disc 1 or whatever it may be) and initialise it. If not maybe try the same thing removing from the caddy and connecting direct.
so just to be clear...you took your HD from you PS3 and installed it in an external USB drive, correct? and when you plug that in windows doesn't recognize the usb drive? its kinda hard to tell at this point if there is an issue with the usb drivers for the usb to sata bridge on the external drive housing, or if there is a problem with the driver for the actual hard drive. most external usb drives are plug and play and don't require extra drivers. as mentioned above, go into disk management. if the drive shows up, then all you need to do is delete the partition, create a new one, and format it. if it doesn't show up than there is an issue with the actual usb drivers, not the physical HD. can you install the HD directly to your computer? i'm guessing its a sata drive, so if you have a newer computer you should have an extra sata port. try connecting it internally directly to your mobo. then you can go to disk management and it should show up so you can partition and format. if you can't install the drive internally, then try going to maxtors website and find the correct drivers for the external enclosure.
