I don't have a driver disc or anything for it. Absolutely everything except Internet Explorer (ick) is on that hard drive, and I have already tried replacing the USB cable. I need that hard drive for my computer to be at all useful. What do I do???
External Hard Drive not recognized
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paddymoran
, Feb 09 2009 01:47 PM
#1
Posted 09 February 2009 - 01:47 PM
I don't have a driver disc or anything for it. Absolutely everything except Internet Explorer (ick) is on that hard drive, and I have already tried replacing the USB cable. I need that hard drive for my computer to be at all useful. What do I do???
#2
Posted 18 February 2009 - 09:04 AM
give us your system specs...
look in the device manager for any yellow or red ...
when it started happening had you unplugged the drive WITHOUT using the safely remove icon in the system tray....
look in the device manager for any yellow or red ...
when it started happening had you unplugged the drive WITHOUT using the safely remove icon in the system tray....
#3
Posted 22 February 2009 - 09:09 PM
System specs...
Windows XP SP3
Pentium 4 2.0 ghz
internal hard drive with 115GB storage
uhh...cd-rw and dvd drives
like 1.5 GB ram
...?
in the device manager, there is no yellow or red
and no i havent unplugged it without using the safely remove icon
Windows XP SP3
Pentium 4 2.0 ghz
internal hard drive with 115GB storage
uhh...cd-rw and dvd drives
like 1.5 GB ram
...?
in the device manager, there is no yellow or red
and no i havent unplugged it without using the safely remove icon
#4
Posted 23 February 2009 - 09:11 AM
try plugging it into a different computer...if it can't read the drive...
no joy
if the external drive is still in the warranty period...you can send it back for replacement...
if it has all your data then you will have to open the case on it and then slave it to a working system to try to recover your data with no guarantee that it will work....BUT if you can't recover any data the warranty is no good because you opened the case...
no joy
if the external drive is still in the warranty period...you can send it back for replacement...
if it has all your data then you will have to open the case on it and then slave it to a working system to try to recover your data with no guarantee that it will work....BUT if you can't recover any data the warranty is no good because you opened the case...
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