How do I get a usb portable hard drive to work?

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I bought a verbatim usb Portable Hard Drive to store information on from my old pc with windows XP to my new pc with windows 7. I can not get the usb hard drive to show up on either pc. It shows a blue light on but otherwise it won't do anything.

Answer
a few possibilities:

A) it only has a usb cord, and it needs more power. Try a usb port on the back of the computer.

B) it has been corrupted. It will need formating. Here is a howto http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/format-usb-ntfs/

C) it's dead.

can i format a hard drive on windows 7 for a mac?

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I got a freeagent goflex portable hard drive. I need it to work on both a mac and windows computer. It works on my windows computer but I need it to work on a mac computer at school so I need to format it. I was wondering can I format it at home on my windows 7 without having to do it at school?

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Format it as MS-DOS (FAT) and it will work on both. Slow, but it will work.

I use this all of the time to copy back and forth between Mac and Windows machines.

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