Question : Problem: How To Format A New Laptop Drive When It's Hooked Up Externally?

How To Format A New Laptop Drive When It's Hooked Up Externally?

I'm trying to use Norton Ghost to format a larger external laptop drive with a duplicate copy of my current smaller laptop drive. Basically I'm upgrading the size of my laptop drive to 120mb.

Copying a drive in Norton Ghost seems fairly easy. The problem I'm having is that I'm having a hard time figuring out how to format my new drive so I can copy the disk image from my old drive onto it. My new drive is not pre-formatted and when I go to copy my old drive onto it, it isn't recognized in windows as a hard drive.

************How do I format  this new laptop drive while hooked up with a USB 2.0 connection so that Norton Ghost recognizes it as a drive.******************

After formatting the drive and copying the disk image from my old drive onto it. I will remove my old drive from my laptop and replace it with the new larger drive.

Answer : Problem: How To Format A New Laptop Drive When It's Hooked Up Externally?

>> And I don't know how to use the disk manager in windows to format a blank hard drive. I tried and failed.

This is how:  My Computer/right click/Manage/Disk Management/then maximiize window

You should see your usb2 drive listed, and to the right it should show unformatted.  If you don't see the usb2 drive listed, then you have some type of usb2 problem.  If it is shown, you select the usb2 drive, right click and see the options, one of which should be format.  Others are properties etc.

If Windows XP can't see the usb2 drive, then Ghost 9 won't be able to see it either.