8.Click “Finish”. Windows will now begin formatting and initializing the disk:
9.Open “My Computer” and verify that the drive shows up properly:
If the drive already has data on it you can skip the previous step.
1.Check the “Device Manager” to make sure that the “USB Mass Storage Device” driver appears under the
“Universal Serial Bus Controllers” section. Also check that the drive shows up under “Disk drives” as a “(Hard drive model number) USB Device”. There should be no error message in your Device Manager, such as a bold ? or ! :