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Old Hard Drive Not Working

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Hey, I'm a new fan of Linus and I thoroughly enjoy their videos! I have an old hard drive which I was keen to use to store copies of my photos from my phone on. However, When I connect my hard drive to my laptop it doesn't come up under 'my computer'. I then went to disk management to then find it was showing up there but holds 0 bytes of data. I've tried it in my desktop with the same result happening. I've tried updating drivers but it just says the drivers are up to date and I've tried renaming the drive in disk management. Thank you!

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You probably need to format the drive (in disk management)

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