HAVE JUST CONNECTED YOUR SELECT 500GB HARD DRIVE TO MY PC. LOCATED THE DRIVE IN MY DOCUMENTS AS SUGGESTED. HOW DO I GET THE DATA FROM MY PC INTO THE IOMEGA DRIVE AS A BACKUP? Drive still shows all space is unused.

External hard drives are plug-and-play devices used to store music, video and data files. Once the drive is connected, the computer checks its systems for the appropriate drivers, loads them, and the external drive is ready to use.

If the computer does not recognize the external drive, plug it into another computer to ensure the drive is not corrupted.

If the drive is good, a few simple steps should help re-enable the drive for use.

Switch the power button to "off."

Disconnect the power cord from any extension cords or power strip, then re-seat the power cord into the hard drive.

Connect the cord directly into an outlet and power up the drive.

If the drive is powered and still not working, check the data cable.

Power down the hard drive and disconnect the data cable from the computer.

Wait 30 seconds to one minute.

Reconnect the data cable and power up the drive.

If the drive is not detected, power down the hard drive and connect the cable to a different port.

Power up the drive.

If the drive is detected but not working, check for a missing driver.

Click on the "Start" button, right-click "Computer" and select "Manage."

Enter your administrator password if requested.

Select "Device Manager" and double-click "Disk Drives."

Right-click the yellow exclamation point and install the missing driver. Close the Device Manager.

If the drive is detected but not working check to ensure it has an assigned drive letter.

Disconnect all devices connected by USB cables from the computer. Reconnect the drive's data and USB power cables directly into the computer.

Click on the "Start" button, right-click "Computer" and select "Manage." Enter your administrator password if requested.

Click on "Disk Management," right-click the external hard drive, click "change drive letter and path," and click "Add."

Assign a drive letter.

Avoid using A, B or C (C is usually assigned to the computer's internal hard drive). Click "OK" close the window.

If the drive is detected but not working, check whether the drive is in sleep mode.

Disconnect all devices connected by USB cables from the computer.

Reconnect the drive's data and USB power cables directly into the computer.

Click the "Start" button, right-click "Computer" and select "Manage."

Enter your administrator password if requested.

Select "Device Manager" and double-click "Universal Serial Bus Controllers."

Double-click the first instance of "USB Root Hub" or "Root Hub."

Check for the hard drive.

If the drive is not visible, move to the next instance of "USB Root Hub."

Continue checking each instance until the hard drive is located.

Once located, click the "Power Management" tab and uncheck the "Allow computer to turn off this device to save power" box, click "OK," then close the Device Manager.

Power the computer down, wait 30 seconds to one minute, and power the computer back up to ensure the drive is detected.

Hope this helps

click start click on computer to open you should see your drives C: and your other drives cd dvd and your usb drive E: or F: from there you select the files right click on the file/s right click copy navigate back to the drive right click select paste or hold the mouse cursor the file/s drag them to usb drive then drop them example on how to safe data/files to a usb drive

click start all programs accessories open windows explorer navigate to your data
right click on the data select copy navigate back to the usb drive right click select paste or select the data hold the mouse cursor then drag the data to your usb drive then drop it in
or if you are downloading data from the internet


once it starts downloading windows will ask whether you want to run or save it
a browse option will open you can save it into a folder in my documents or another device or a usb device
if you need more help with this post a reply

hope this helps you

click start click on computer to open you should see your drives C: and your other drives cd dvd and your usb drive E: or F: from there you select the files right click on the file/s right click copy navigate back to the drive right click select paste or hold the mouse cursor the file/s drag them to usb drive then drop them example on how to safe data/files to a usb drive
click start all programs accessories open windows explorer navigate to your data
right click on the data select copy navigate back to the usb drive right click select paste or select the data hold the mouse cursor then drag the data to your usb drive then drop it in
or if you are downloading data from the internet
once it starts downloading windows will ask whether you want to run or save it
a browse option will open you can save it into a folder in my documents or another device or a usb device
if you need more help with this post a reply
hope this helps YOU

When its connected go to My Computer.
Then right click the drive and choose Format. NFTS is good for a 500gb harddrive, and you can set it to do a quick format and it will work fine.

The disk-drive has malfunctioned.

Search online for a professional "data recovery service".
For a significant fee, they can repair your disk-drive,
just long-enough to copy your files to a new disk-drive.

If it still has a valid WARRANTY, exercise the warranty to get it repaired/replaced.

If the warranty has expired, then open the case, remove the disk-drive, buy a new "compatible" disk-drive, connect it, and thus "revive" your external storage device.

click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/f which will automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive then defragment your hard drive
hope this helps

Theres' a couple things you need to double check. If you also have a CD-ROM drive connected to the same data cable as the DVD-ROM writer check the jumper on the back side of both. One should be pinned with a two pin jumper and set as a master and the second should be set as the slave. The back side of each ROM drive is marked M for Master, S for Slave & C for cable select. (Cable Select not suggested).
Double check the data cable. Remove and re-seat at the motherboard and at the ROM drives Parallel ATA data cable. Also check the power cable. Remove and re-seat. If everything is connected and the two pin jumper correctly and snug you should see the DVD listed in the BIOS.
Performed a restart and check your BIOS.

Cheers'
Mike

With the drive connected to your computer, Open up My Computer, located the drive you want to wipe, right click on it and select Format, you can do a quick format. This will remove all data from the drive so be sure you do not want any data that is on it. This will also remove the WD files that came on the drive as well. If you need these files just copy them to your local disk temporally format the drive and then move them back.

Open up the control panel with the drive connected, open administrative tools and computer management. Select storage and see if the drive is listed there. It will probably let you format it from there.

Also check it on some other system, as per your data is concerned sometimes the card to which hard drive is attached does not work if this will be the case, then the hard drive is ok your data will be save