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Old 01-09-2009   #9 (permalink)
Andy G


 
 

Re: WD external drive works with XP, not with Vista

Cheers Steve, but the Partition Style is already set to "MBR". At least I
now know you can right click on the left section!

Andy G


"Steve Pearce" <*stevepearce@xxxxxx*> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:53:29 +0200, "Andy G" <georgi66@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
Quote:

>>In Computer Management things have changed a bit too. The drive now seems
>>to have two listings in the lower half of the window. It is shown as Disk
>>1
>>(Removable G, No Media. To the right there is no information.
>
> If you right click on the leftmost section (where is says "Disk 0",
> "Disk 1" etc) and select properties and then select the "Volumes" tab;
> what does it say the "Partition style" is?
>
> I had a flaash drive that act in a similar way and I couldn't use it
> in Vista at all, however Windows XP had no problems with it. This was
> because the "Partition style" was "GUID Partition Table". When I
> reformatted it in XP, it changed to "Master Boot Record(MBR)" and
> Vista was then able to use it.
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