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Hi rosalan,<br />
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I'm just curious but are the external hard drives used before? Right click my computer, go to manage, select disk management, do they show up in disk management? If they do, they show up as unallocated? If so you have to allocate them.
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Hi rosalan,

I'm just curious but are the external hard drives used before? Right click my computer, go to manage, select disk management, do they show up in disk management? If they do, they show up as unallocated? If so you have to allocate them.

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The disk in question shows up as 'unallocated'. I used them on my Mac G5 previously. I didn't think that it would make a difference...I guess it does. If I 'allocate' the disks, will I destroy the data or make them unusable on the Mac...in fact, I guess the question is..can I allocate them at all?
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The disk in question shows up as 'unallocated'. I used them on my Mac G5 previously. I didn't think that it would make a difference...I guess it does. If I 'allocate' the disks, will I destroy the data or make them unusable on the Mac...in fact, I guess the question is..can I allocate them at all?

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I have an HP XW Workstation 8200, which has a SCSI drive as its' C drive. I am trying to access some external drives--most have either USB or Firewire. The computer recognizes them when they are plugged in, they &nbsp;are seen in the Hardware section by the control panel, but they do not appear in 'My Computer' and I cannot access them. I can however, eject them by 'safely removing hardware'. What do I have to do to see these drives and to access their files?
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I have an HP XW Workstation 8200, which has a SCSI drive as its' C drive. I am trying to access some external drives--most have either USB or Firewire. The computer recognizes them when they are plugged in, they  are seen in the Hardware section by the control panel, but they do not appear in 'My Computer' and I cannot access them. I can however, eject them by 'safely removing hardware'. What do I have to do to see these drives and to access their files?

Can't see my USB/Firewire external drives on my HP xw8200 w/SCSI as my C drive.

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.