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10-03-2007
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| | Trying to get my new laptop to recognise an external drive. My old laptop got trashed so i got a new one. I then went out and got a new one yesterday, toshiba p200-17c, running centino duo with 2048 ram. The old laptop would not boot up, and i have salvaged the 60gig hard drive. I am trying to get my new laptop to recognise the new drive. I bought an enclosure for the drive and connected it via usb. The drivers for the old drive were found and loaded but i cannot find the drive. The drive contains all my photos, videos and itunes. Please help Dave. |
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10-03-2007
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| Windows Vista Home Premium | Re: Trying to get my new laptop to recognise an external drive. Does the drive show up in Disk Management? In XP, go to "Start" > "Run" > type "diskmgmt.msc." In Vista, go to "Start" > type "diskmgmt.msc." |
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10-03-2007
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| | Re: Trying to get my new laptop to recognise an external drive. Some external enclosures are not Vista compatible. Check that the one you have is compatible. Why would your old laptop not boot? Was it the laptop itself or the drive which had gone bad? "help with vista and old drive" <help with vista and old drive@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1BE413D9-64E1-4073-85B1-75206CCF93CC@xxxxxx Quote: > My old laptop got trashed so i got a new one. I then went out and got a > new > one yesterday, toshiba p200-17c, running centino duo with 2048 ram. > The old laptop would not boot up, and i have salvaged the 60gig hard > drive. > I am trying to get my new laptop to recognise the new drive. > I bought an enclosure for the drive and connected it via usb. The drivers > for the old drive were found and loaded but i cannot find the drive. > The drive contains all my photos, videos and itunes. > > Please help > > Dave. |
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10-03-2007
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| | Re: Trying to get my new laptop to recognise an external drive. it does not show up in disk management but it does show up in device manager but with no details "Fevrin" wrote: Quote: > > Does the drive show up in Disk Management? In XP, go to "Start" > "Run" Quote: > > type "diskmgmt.msc." In Vista, go to "Start" > type "diskmgmt.msc." > > -- > Fevrin > |
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