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November 18th 09, 03:07 PM
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External hard drive
I have a simpletech external hard drive. When plugging it into the USB port windows vista is not recognizing the disk in my computer. -- patrickpalmer4 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com 
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November 18th 09, 03:34 PM
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"patrickpalmer4" wrote
in message news  I have a simpletech external hard drive. When plugging it into the USB port windows vista is not recognizing the disk in my computer. Sounds like a conflict of drive letters. If you open up 'Disk Management' (Start Disk Management) then you can change the drive letter(s) to something that doesn't conflict. -- Jon
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November 18th 09, 03:34 PM
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patrickpalmer4 wrote:
I have a simpletech external hard drive. When plugging it into the USB port windows vista is not recognizing the disk in my computer. You're running Vista. What the hell do you expect? Alias
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November 18th 09, 05:03 PM
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Try this:
Unplug it, turn PC off , plug it in, turn PC on. "patrickpalmer4" wrote in message news I have a simpletech external hard drive. When plugging it into the USB port windows vista is not recognizing the disk in my computer. -- patrickpalmer4 Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
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November 18th 09, 09:32 PM
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:07:08 +0000, patrickpalmer4 wrote:
I have a simpletech external hard drive. When plugging it into the USB port windows vista is not recognizing the disk in my computer. Is the drive formatted? You can learn a bit by right-clicking on Computer (in the Start Menu) and choosing Manage. Select Storage, then Disk Management. On the right panel you'll see the drives that Windows sees and maybe a hint of how they are formatted and what drive letters are assigned. You might have to scroll a bit. Right-clicking here and there will give you some options (seems to me they're mostly greyed out, though!). Some options are to create or delete a partition, format one, etcetera. When I inadvertently plug a Mac-formatted drive in, Windows doesn't see it, but the Manage screen does (it has no idea what the format is, however). -- Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
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