Figured it out . The drive showed up in the list with a little red down arrow by the disk . By rightclicking on the down arrow , I was given the option to initialize disk . Now am moving forward with the formatting process . Confusing , but hope that saves someone some time . Is this helpful ? <| sep |> yeah man it ' s been a pretty sad week with ye in the hospital and all <| sep |> Probably due to the schedule they have to adhere to . All that mental and physical fatigue will eventually catch up to them no matter how much they think they can push on . <| sep |> are you 12 or something . why don ' t you ask your parents <| sep |> Couple of loose strands of hair short of the perfect mug . <| sep |> Massive fan of cellular . Not quite as good as ON but it ' s cheaper and tastes goos . Best flavor is Molton chocolate but cinnamon swirl is good too .