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10-12-2008
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| | unable to view external hard drive in my computer i have a toshiba laptop running windows vista home premium 32 bit and have just recently bought a my book western digital 640GB hard drive. i got the hard drive home put all my files on there and stupidly decided to try change the drives name. i changed the name of the drive and then suddenly it disappeared off my computer and now im stuck with a little black box with all my data on it and no way to access it. if its any help i can see the device in safely remove hardware but nowhere else. any help would really mean alot to me as i have basically lost everything... many thanks ben -- driver08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ driver08's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/driver08.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...es/1053515.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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10-12-2008
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| | Re: unable to view external hard drive in my computer driver08 wrote: Quote: > > i have a toshiba laptop running windows vista home premium 32 bit and > have just recently bought a my book western digital 640GB hard drive. i > got the hard drive home put all my files on there and stupidly decided > to try change the drives name. i changed the name of the drive and then > suddenly it disappeared off my computer and now im stuck with a little > black box with all my data on it and no way to access it. if its any > help i can see the device in safely remove hardware but nowhere else. > any help would really mean alot to me as i have basically lost > everything... many thanks ben > > and plug the drive into a different USB port. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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