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external harddrive
Me is'nt detecting my new ext HD. can't find device mgr
to manually install help please Milt |
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How is your external hard drive connected? Firewire? USB? Also how
large is the drive? -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP milt wrote: Me is'nt detecting my new ext HD. can't find device mgr to manually install |
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Is that a whole new portable hard drive, or a hard drive enclosed in
an external enclosure ( http://www.removable-storage-guide.com )? If it is a portable hard drive, then you would have to check the driver from the manufacturer. But if you are using Windows XP, then there's must be something wrong with your external hard drive, because Windows XP doesn't require any additional driver. As for external enclosure, an internal hard drive must first be formatted in FAT32 mode. Many have reported that if it is not formatted in this mode, the OS couldn't detect it. "milt" wrote in message ... Me is'nt detecting my new ext HD. can't find device mgr to manually install help please Milt |
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Victor
You may not have noticed - but we're in a Win ME newsgroup, and the OP posted beginning with....'Me is'nt detecting' -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Victor Ng" wrote in message m... Is that a whole new portable hard drive, or a hard drive enclosed in an external enclosure ( http://www.removable-storage-guide.com )? If it is a portable hard drive, then you would have to check the driver from the manufacturer. But if you are using Windows XP, then there's must be something wrong with your external hard drive, because Windows XP doesn't require any additional driver. As for external enclosure, an internal hard drive must first be formatted in FAT32 mode. Many have reported that if it is not formatted in this mode, the OS couldn't detect it. "milt" wrote in message ... Me is'nt detecting my new ext HD. can't find device mgr to manually install help please Milt |
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I was reading the original post again and again at first, but couldn't
actually figured out the sentence. You pointed me out! :P Thanks for the note! So, if you are using Windows ME, have you tried the portable hard drive in your friend's computer? If that works, then it's your OS problem, but if it doesn't too, try it on other operating systems like XP, 98, 2000, Mac and so on. If all fail, well, we can come to a conclusion that your drive is faulty. |
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