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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 |