Help Icy Box Mp301

[micheal-murphy]

hi i just bought an icy box and fitted a 500gb Seagate Barracuda IDE 16mb drive. When i hook the MP301 upto my pc, it doesn't detect it and the player displays "read" on its display and doesn't change. I know i have to format the drive in FAT32, but do i have to do this before i fit it into the player or can i do it through the usb at a later stage? I know it's probably somethin obvious I'm doing wrong. Any help would be much appeciated

 

[Rastalovich]

Have the thingy plugged in and try right clicking on MyComputer and goto Manage. Click on DiskManagement and it may detect a drive that needs setting up.

Strange it doesn`t say anything in the docs about setting it up.

 

[micheal-murphy]

it appeared briefly in DiskManagement, when i tried to repair it, it gave an error and hasn't come up in it since...this is what i'm tryin to set up http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/storage/icy_box_ib-mp301_hdd_media_player/1