WD Elements WDBAAU0020HBK

I HAVE RECENTLY BOUGHT THIS DRIVE AND ALL SEEMS WELL EXCEPT THAT WINDOWS (VISTA) FILE MANAGER CANNOT SEE IT NOW. IT COULD WHEN I FIRST HAD THE UNIT. I HAVE DONE TWO THINGS WHICH MAY HAVE MESSED IT UP:

1 - I LET MY HUMAX PVR RE-FORMAT THE DISC SO THAT IT COULD STORE RECOERDED TV PROGRAMMES (BOTH HI-DEF AND SD).

2 - AUTORUN (AND ANY OTHER PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE) WAS DELETED.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM? ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Wow.   You seriously messed it up…

My guess is that you’ll need to re-connect it to your PC.   Delete any and all partitions from the disk using the Disk Manager in Vista.

Then allow Vista to re-create an NTFS partition and re-format it.

Thanks for the reply, but when I reconnect it to the PC, it still cannot be seen by Vist File manager.

File manager WON’T see it until there’s a valid, formatted NTFS partition.