Welcome to Vista Banter. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and access our other FREE features. By joining our free community you will have access to ask questions and reply to others posts, upload your own photos and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact support. |
|
Hardware and Windows Vista Hardware issues in relation to Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices) |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive). When I plug the USB cable in it goes through the installing drivers and says it installed and the device is ready to use. However My Computer doesn't show the drive. Disk Manager tells me the drive needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize the drive I get one of two error messages the first says "Incorrect Function". I then tried using System Restore to reset the computer to before the last Windows Update since the drives worked fine in the past and it seems unlikely 2 drives would fail at exactly the same time. Again when I plugged the drive in it said installed the drivers and the device was ready to use, but no drive in My Computer and Disk Manager again said the drive needs to initialized. This time when I tried to initialize the drive I got the error message "The drive cannot find the sector requested" Ideas? -- Fishdoc Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
Fishdoc wrote:
I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive). When I plug the USB cable in it goes through the installing drivers and says it installed and the device is ready to use. However My Computer doesn't show the drive. Disk Manager tells me the drive needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize the drive I get one of two error messages the first says "Incorrect Function". I then tried using System Restore to reset the computer to before the last Windows Update since the drives worked fine in the past and it seems unlikely 2 drives would fail at exactly the same time. Again when I plugged the drive in it said installed the drivers and the device was ready to use, but no drive in My Computer and Disk Manager again said the drive needs to initialized. This time when I tried to initialize the drive I got the error message "The drive cannot find the sector requested" Ideas? You do NOT want to initialize the drive if it has data on it... that will blank it out!!!!!! |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
Fishdoc wrote:
I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive). When I plug the USB cable in it goes through the installing drivers and says it installed and the device is ready to use. However My Computer doesn't show the drive. Disk Manager tells me the drive needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize the drive I get one of two error messages the first says "Incorrect Function". I then tried using System Restore to reset the computer to before the last Windows Update since the drives worked fine in the past and it seems unlikely 2 drives would fail at exactly the same time. Again when I plugged the drive in it said installed the drivers and the device was ready to use, but no drive in My Computer and Disk Manager again said the drive needs to initialized. This time when I tried to initialize the drive I got the error message "The drive cannot find the sector requested" Ideas? You do NOT want to initialize the drive if it has data on it... that will blank it out!!!!!! |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
philo The only data on the drives is backups of my computers both of which fortunately are currently functioning correctly. If I could initialize the drives, I could re-run the backups. Western Digital Support tells me the "Drive Interface" has failed, seems strange that the same thing would happen to two different drives at the same time. Any ideas? -- Fishdoc Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
philo The only data on the drives is backups of my computers both of which fortunately are currently functioning correctly. If I could initialize the drives, I could re-run the backups. Western Digital Support tells me the "Drive Interface" has failed, seems strange that the same thing would happen to two different drives at the same time. Any ideas? -- Fishdoc Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
Fishdoc wrote:
philo The only data on the drives is backups of my computers both of which fortunately are currently functioning correctly. If I could initialize the drives, I could re-run the backups. Western Digital Support tells me the "Drive Interface" has failed, seems strange that the same thing would happen to two different drives at the same time. Any ideas? What that means is that the electronics in the USB enclosure seemingly has failed. Since it's happened with two different devices my *guess* is that there is a *driver* problem as I find it unlikely that two drives would fail at the same time My guess is the hard drives themselves are fine and if you installed them internally... rather than using the USB enclosure...they'd probably work I've visit the WD's website and see if they have any updated Vista drivers for those enclosures |
|
|||
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
Fishdoc wrote:
philo The only data on the drives is backups of my computers both of which fortunately are currently functioning correctly. If I could initialize the drives, I could re-run the backups. Western Digital Support tells me the "Drive Interface" has failed, seems strange that the same thing would happen to two different drives at the same time. Any ideas? What that means is that the electronics in the USB enclosure seemingly has failed. Since it's happened with two different devices my *guess* is that there is a *driver* problem as I find it unlikely that two drives would fail at the same time My guess is the hard drives themselves are fine and if you installed them internally... rather than using the USB enclosure...they'd probably work I've visit the WD's website and see if they have any updated Vista drivers for those enclosures |