Did diskcleanser on USB drive, now win7 doesn't see

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I have a seagate external usb drive, tried to clone my c:\ to it, didn't work (I should have known, but I'm new to this stuff), and to 'start over', I did the acronis diskcleanser, and now windows 7 doesn't even see the drive at all.

How can I get back to just having a formatted usb drive? Thank you. Dave

lun 06/12/2010 - 14:45
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Does the drive show up in Windows Disk Management?

Does it show up in TI (Add New Disk Wizard, for example)?

Either of those should let you create a partition so you can use the drive.

lun 06/12/2010 - 18:34
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Hey, thanks for the reply! I found the other threads on this and followed your instructions on your website. It now shows up just fine. Now I'm going to acronis to setup as a back up. Thank you for that article, you the man.

I'm not sure what the best way to back up is. It is a true USB, no sata or power connections, so I can't use it for a clone to boot from apparently. Continuous backup sounds like what I'm looking for.

You mention making a bootable flash drive using Media Builder. I will try using the flash drive. Words of wisdom are welcome. Thanks.

It's backing up right now onto the usb drive. I think I got it.

lun 06/12/2010 - 20:03
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If you're using the Nonstop Backup feature of TI, I would still recommend that you create periodic normal backup images as well. Don't rely solely on the Nonstop Backup.

lun 06/12/2010 - 22:52