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| External hard drive not showing up | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 9 2008, 09:14 AM (64 Views) | |
| Bitsy | Jan 9 2008, 09:14 AM Post #1 |
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I recently purchased a WD My Book, Essential Edition, external hard drive in hopes of improving the speed of my old IBM R31 laptop, XP Pro OS, and to back up my files and system in the event my hard drive crashed. I plan on purchasing a new computer within 6 months but with Christmas bills and property taxes due, I can’t do it before then. I moved My Pictures and others files with no problem but as of a couple of days ago, the external drive no longer appears under My Computer. As you see can see from the following, it does appear under Disk Management. I can open it from this location, and see all of my files. I always use the ‘remove safely’ feature when disconnecting the device from my computer so I don't think I damaged My Book. Any suggestions for me? Thanks. Posted Image |
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| wildie | Jan 9 2008, 01:17 PM Post #2 |
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Do you see the drive in Explorer? And its associated files? [not Internet Explorer] Or how about under Control Panel>System>Hardware> USB. When I plug a flash drive into a USB jack, its characteristics appear here and when I unplug it disappears. Your External drive should appear her also. You could also consider using the restore feature in XP and go back to the time the drive was appearing OK. |
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| Delphi51 | Jan 12 2008, 03:50 PM Post #3 |
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Wow, an interesting one Bitsy! I never heard of that before. But a google search for "hard drive does not appear in My computer" (without quotes) brings up all sorts of similar complaints and fixes. This one from Microsoft caught my eye but may not apply to your disk:
It's from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330140 |
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