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May 10th 07, 02:13 AM
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External Hard Drive Confusion
Well you see, I have this hard drive, an Acomdata 120GB external USB hard
drive. It is around 3 years old now, it worked just fine for all three of those years, until recently. For some reason it isn't being recognized in Windows Vista, or XP for that matter. However, I have a dual-boot of Ubuntu Linux on my computer currently, and it recognizes the drive and it's contents. Whereas Windows says that it is there and won't allow me to access my files on it. You can see my confusion with this dilemma, any help would be welcome! 
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May 14th 07, 02:13 AM
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External Hard Drive Confusion
Zeroes wrote:
Well you see, I have this hard drive, an Acomdata 120GB external USB hard drive. It is around 3 years old now, it worked just fine for all three of those years, until recently. For some reason it isn't being recognized in Windows Vista, or XP for that matter. However, I have a dual-boot of Ubuntu Linux on my computer currently, and it recognizes the drive and it's contents. Whereas Windows says that it is there and won't allow me to access my files on it. What part of Windows 'says it is there' and what part doesn't? Details would be helpful.
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May 14th 07, 02:24 AM
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External Hard Drive Confusion
The hardware manager says that the hard drive is present, and when I plug it
in the USB drivers "install" etc. However it never shows up in My Computer and won't allow changes to the drive itself through the admin tools "computer management".
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May 14th 07, 02:17 PM
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External Hard Drive Confusion
In Computer ManagementDisk Management can you right click on the drive and on
the Security tab change ownership/permissions to your user account? "Zeroes" wrote in message ... The hardware manager says that the hard drive is present, and when I plug it in the USB drivers "install" etc. However it never shows up in My Computer and won't allow changes to the drive itself through the admin tools "computer management".
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