bought a caddy for my original 40gb PS3 HDD,

the HDD is running, drivers loaded etc, but it doesn't show up in computer/my computer, device manager says it is working correctly,

anybody any idea what i'm doing wrong, tried it on XP + Vista, both the same

should i have formatted it before i removed it from my PS3 ?

Try looking in Control panel>administritive tools>computer managament>disk managment , then if there format it.

HTH

Yes, you will need to delete the PS3 partition using the tool posted above and then create a new one that a PC can understand. Simply plugging the drive in is not enough.

Try looking in Control panel>administritive tools>computer managament>disk managment , then if there format it.HTH

gone into that, the HDD is showing as unallocated, i can't do any type of formatting, i did get the HDD online as it did have a "no-entry" symbol showing

right click on the unallocated bit and click create simple volume and go through the wizard.

right click on the unallocated bit and click create simple volume and go through the wizard.

it wouldn't do that, but it did let me make a new partition, so i have got it working now, thanks for the replies