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July 15th 08, 10:24 PM
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vista not recognising external hdd
I have just purchased a new notebook Asus X70sr. My old hp zd7000 pavilion notebook died last week so not only have i had to put up with the stress of not being able to access all my files and data on a dead computer its 5 days on and i still am unable to access the 60 gig hardrive which is now in a vi power enclosure usb2.0 to ide interface. Running Xp on the old laptop i used previously this drive enclosure with a 30 gig notebook drive (wifes old acer travelmate) as a back up, no problems acsessing drive at all. On the Asus I plugged the drive in, up came "windows is searching drivers database" and when it finally said that the driver was successfully installed I went to "my computer"- Nada! "Device manager" again Nada!! I am already now not a fan of Vista as it would seem i now have to crack something just to transfer all my stuff across. I have searched for similar situations to mine but theres nothing definite mentioned on what to do. People have mentioned uninstalling usb drivers and re-booting before plugging the drive in again or assigning the drive another drive letter. how do i do this if i cant find it - Arrrrgh! Can one of you Techys  assist?-- thwartedthong 
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July 15th 08, 11:04 PM
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vista not recognising external hdd
"thwartedthong" wrote in message
... I have just purchased a new notebook Asus X70sr. My old hp zd7000 pavilion notebook died last week so not only have i had to put up with the stress of not being able to access all my files and data on a dead computer its 5 days on and i still am unable to access the 60 gig hardrive which is now in a vi power enclosure usb2.0 to ide interface. Running Xp on the old laptop i used previously this drive enclosure with a 30 gig notebook drive (wifes old acer travelmate) as a back up, no problems acsessing drive at all. On the Asus I plugged the drive in, up came "windows is searching drivers database" and when it finally said that the driver was successfully installed I went to "my computer"- Nada! "Device manager" again Nada!! I am already now not a fan of Vista as it would seem i now have to crack something just to transfer all my stuff across. I have searched for similar situations to mine but theres nothing definite mentioned on what to do. People have mentioned uninstalling usb drivers and re-booting before plugging the drive in again or assigning the drive another drive letter. how do i do this if i cant find it - Arrrrgh! Can one of you Techys assist?-- thwartedthong What version of XP on the old computer and what version of Vista on the new one? Was the drive initialized as a Basic disk or Dynamic on the old computer?
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July 16th 08, 06:03 AM
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vista not recognising external hdd
i was running xp home edition on the hp notebook 60 gig hdd. i am running vista home premium edition 32 bit. was not quite sure what you meant by optimised? the drive is as it was removed from the notebook with the xp o/s partition intact. It is recognised on another xp laptop we have but again not on my wifes vista home premium toshiba laptop. I'm guessing then only a vista specific issue. -- thwartedthong
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July 16th 08, 04:21 PM
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vista not recognising external hdd
"thwartedthong" wrote in message
... i was running xp home edition on the hp notebook 60 gig hdd. i am running vista home premium edition 32 bit. was not quite sure what you meant by optimised? the drive is as it was removed from the notebook with the xp o/s partition intact. It is recognised on another xp laptop we have but again not on my wifes vista home premium toshiba laptop. I'm guessing then only a vista specific issue. -- thwartedthong Not "optimised." I said "initialized." Initializing is assigning the drive letter and creating the partition.
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