HELP!

Leowjb

please help! My external harddrive is no longer recognized my windows xp! I dunno what to do.. I use USB

Mr Yuck

is power on?

how about trying a different USB port?

is it plugged in?

DaemonDraxx

Wow that sucks. When my MuVo was no longer recognized under Windows, it was screwed. No more MuVo. =/
I advise you to beware of static. I cannot stress this enough. :(

Leowjb

yes it is powered on.. yes it is connected diffrent USB port.. stil wont work any more ideas?

Dugoth

Try it on someone elses system to determine if it's a problem with the drive/druve USB cable itself or if it's your system which is causing the issue. Try other USB devices in the ports on your system to see if the USB ports are functional. If the HD works on another comp, and the USB ports on your system work, then it's most likely an OS conflict or driver issue somewhere. Might try forcing new hardware detection, going over any changes you may have made recently since just before it stopped working, look at doing a system restore if you're on XP and have an older restore point, maybe try a repair of XP...

Leowjb

well i figured out that if I :

1.Disconnect the USB
2.Turn off the harddrive
3.Turn it back on
4.Reconnect the USB

Well I guess I will keep doing this until i get Firewire..
the it wil lwork again..

Arainach

Burn yourself a Knoppix CD:

http://www.knoppix.org/

With the Drive connected, reboot to the CD and see if it detects it. If it does, then there's still a distinct chance of saving it under Linux. When Windows wouldn't read my 256MB flash key, all I needed to do was format it in Linux and it was good.

Leowjb

cool, well ive had knoppix for a while now.. but i always come back to winhoez because im not smart enough to get my dammed wireless card working.. i wish i were smarter

trsroller

linuxiso.org is a good place to DL linus also.

i hope u get it working and if he formats it in linux then wont windos not format it? i think that happened to me on my other 40 gig.

xmod racer

That sucks.