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August 21st 08, 01:16 PM
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removable hard drive
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Please can anyone help, i brought a mass 500gb exturnal hard drive, which connects to my computer by usb, (i am running windows vista) it was working fine for a week or two then the hard drive stopped me from putting on any files or getting any files off it, it changed from a LOCAL DISK DRIVE to a REMOVABLE DRIVE which wont alow me to get any of my files from it or even open the drive can anyone tell me how to change it back to a LOCAL DRIVE many thanks Hoppy 
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August 21st 08, 02:22 PM
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"hoppy" wrote in message
... hi Please can anyone help, i brought a mass 500gb exturnal hard drive, which connects to my computer by usb, (i am running windows vista) it was working fine for a week or two then the hard drive stopped me from putting on any files or getting any files off it, it changed from a LOCAL DISK DRIVE to a REMOVABLE DRIVE which wont alow me to get any of my files from it or even open the drive can anyone tell me how to change it back to a LOCAL DRIVE many thanks Hoppy You can try removing that particular device in Device manager, disconnecting the drive, reboot, then connect the drive again after reboot to let Vista rediscover it. I can't tell you it'll work from personal experience, but it will only take a couple of minutes to try it.
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August 21st 08, 02:45 PM
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"PvdG42" wrote: "hoppy" wrote in message ... hi Please can anyone help, i brought a mass 500gb exturnal hard drive, which connects to my computer by usb, (i am running windows vista) it was working fine for a week or two then the hard drive stopped me from putting on any files or getting any files off it, it changed from a LOCAL DISK DRIVE to a REMOVABLE DRIVE which wont alow me to get any of my files from it or even open the drive can anyone tell me how to change it back to a LOCAL DRIVE many thanks Hoppy You can try removing that particular device in Device manager, disconnecting the drive, reboot, then connect the drive again after reboot to let Vista rediscover it. I can't tell you it'll work from personal experience, but it will only take a couple of minutes to try it. hi friend thanks for the help but that do's not work i have pluged this drive into 4 diffrent comps and they all come up with the same thing that it is a removable drive not a local hard drive so you cant do anything with it i have done this in windows vista win xp64 bit and win xp please can anyone help as there are files i need back off this drive thanks hoppy
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August 26th 08, 04:57 PM
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Hi, Hoppy.
What does Disk Management say about that drive? Press Start, type "diskmgmt.msc", and press Enter. Post back if you need help in figuring it out. But study the screen and the Help file first. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) "hoppy" wrote in message ... hi Please can anyone help, i brought a mass 500gb exturnal hard drive, which connects to my computer by usb, (i am running windows vista) it was working fine for a week or two then the hard drive stopped me from putting on any files or getting any files off it, it changed from a LOCAL DISK DRIVE to a REMOVABLE DRIVE which wont alow me to get any of my files from it or even open the drive can anyone tell me how to change it back to a LOCAL DRIVE many thanks Hoppy
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