New 160 external hdd

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by leesom, Mar 11, 2008.

  1. leesom

    leesom Guest

    hey guys i just got a external hdd from college to use for assignments just having a problem with it. the drive letter was set to o so when i plug it in at home it doesn't recognize it on my computer is there any way of fixing this?
     
  2. rogeball

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    plug the laptop into the computer and
    right click on the my computer> Go to Manage > Then go to disk management on the bottom left

    Once in this window right click on your device and go to change drive letter.
    Change the letter to what ever you want and your done
     
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    rogeball - Text-only signatures should have at most 5 lines of text, pls reword the text to fit, cheers
     
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