Sat May 03, 2014 12:44 am
It needs to be formatted and assigned a drive letter. If this is Windows 7 get to the Disk Management console by right-clicking Computer, selecting Manage and selecting Disk Management from the pane on the left side. Right click My Computer -> Select Manage-> in the console under storage, click disk manager In the console, you should see the drive. If it's unformatted run the wizard to create a new partition (right click -> new partition)
Becareful in here. It's easy to select the wrong drive. The one you want should be the one with out a drive letter. The properties should give the manufacturer name as well as verification you are about to format the correct drive.
Sometimes in order to format it to exFAT you will need to plug in your HDD dock via USB. As windows will not always let you format an internal drive with exFAT. (eSATA looks like an internal drive to the computer)
EDIT: if you have footage on it, try just assigning a drive letter in the disk manager instead of formatting.