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External Hard Drive Stop showing up on Explorer
Hi, I have a 2.5" 10G Fujitsu hard drive with USB enclosure. The problem starts after I was trying to copy files over & suddenly it lost connection. The progress stop responding. I restart the computer & replug the enclosure but it no longer showing up on Explorer. I went to Disk Management and couldn't see it as well. Remove it & plug it in another computer that's running Window XP. Immediately it shows up both in Explorer & Disk Management. I backup all the files, reformat the drive, and scan disk. Everything looks fine. Then I plug the drive back to the original computer that's running Vista Ultimate. After it said installing the new device & ready to use. I open explorer & it didn't show up. Go to Disk Management, it shows up as Disk 1 with Blue label. However, it doesn't has any drive letter assigned. I right click and it only has 1 option = HELP. When I plug it back to XP computer, it works perfectly fine. I've tried the following solution: 1) unplug all device attached to USB, uninstall all USB drive, restart computer 2) try plug in different USB port 3) try reformat the drive in XP again & assign a different drive letter I've look through every where but I simply can't find any solution. Can someone please help me on this? Greatly appreciated!!! -- rudo |