Seagate 80GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (9W2681540) "format volume label mean" Questions

...Right-click in the white area under the black bar and choose Create Simple Volume. Follow the steps thru and format the hard drive. After its formatted it should be recognized by your computer

...volume label for drive G: My External Drive" Let it do it's thing for about 20 minutes (did this on my a 500GB drive)...and be happy when you see the phrase "Conversion Complete". That means nothing ...

...my computer 2 right click your external hard drive 3 click on format. 4 type how you want to name your external hd on Volume label 5 make sure quick format is not checked 6 and then start.... you ...