chsmadden
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Okay, this has been plaguing me for quite a while now.
I have an external USB hard drive. It used to be the case that the drive would show up no problem in Vista. Now, nothing. I recently did a format and install (couple days ago) and I plugged in the drive. I got the notification bubble about installing the device driver, then the bubble saying "Your hardware is ready to use." I go to the computer window, nothing. The drive spins up and mounts just fine on my Macbook, and Vista will pick up my flash drive just fine, just this drive will not mount to only that computer.
Also, if I take the drive out of the adapter and plug it straight into the computer (via SATA) it still doesn't show up, and neither will the 120gb mobile drive I have sitting around. So I have no way of moving large (more than 1gb) files from computer to computer.![mad :mad: :mad:](/images/smilies/099.gif)
I have an external USB hard drive. It used to be the case that the drive would show up no problem in Vista. Now, nothing. I recently did a format and install (couple days ago) and I plugged in the drive. I got the notification bubble about installing the device driver, then the bubble saying "Your hardware is ready to use." I go to the computer window, nothing. The drive spins up and mounts just fine on my Macbook, and Vista will pick up my flash drive just fine, just this drive will not mount to only that computer.
Also, if I take the drive out of the adapter and plug it straight into the computer (via SATA) it still doesn't show up, and neither will the 120gb mobile drive I have sitting around. So I have no way of moving large (more than 1gb) files from computer to computer.
![mad :mad: :mad:](/images/smilies/099.gif)
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz
- Motherboard
- Intel D915PCY
- Memory
- Transcend Axe-RAM 2gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATi Radeon HD 4670 Superclocked
- Sound Card
- Sound Blaster Audigy SE
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Gateway HD 1900
- Screen Resolution
- 1440x900
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital 120gb BEVS series 2.5" Mobile Drive
- PSU
- Xtreme Gamer 500W
- Case
- NZXT Hush
- Cooling
- Stock Intel
- Keyboard
- Logitech S510 Combo
- Mouse
- Logitech S510 Combo