Drives not showing up in 'My Computer' in Windows 7
My answer….
I opened the ‘Manage’ utility (by right clicking the ‘Computer’ in start), and selected ‘Storage’ which showed my external drive as an un-lettered icon in the upper-right window, and as ‘DRIVE 1’ in the lower-right window. I selected the drive in the upper-right window, right clicked it, and selected ‘DELETE VOLUME’. Then I selected the drive (Disk 1) in the lower-right window where it shows the drive partition, and selected ‘New Simple Volume’. Stepped through the wizard, and assigned the drive letter I wanted. It then went through a format (the first time through I did a FULL format.. and QUICK format after that..) After everything was done, it was visible on the ‘My Computer’ page and all was well!!
Cheers, Dave