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External Hard Drive not recognized

Started by jrwb , Mar 26 2011 10:24 PM

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peter99

Posted 31 March 2011 - 01:58 PM

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Command Prompt as Administrator

Vista/win7

1. Click Start button & type cmd in the box.
2. Press keys Ctrl+Shift+Enter
3. This should open command prompt with admin rights

#17
jrwb

Posted 01 April 2011 - 11:00 PM

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I ran the checkdisk for the drive and it ended with something about 'error creating log'.

I can get my computer to see the drive, and I can open it, but it can only take a few hundred megabytes of video and then it stops, e.g it will only accept half of a 750mb film.