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| Thread ID: 90548 | 2008-06-07 04:38:00 | New RAM and USB external Hardrive | mark1978 (13845) | Press F1 |
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| 676222 | 2008-06-07 04:38:00 | This morning I went to our local pc shop and traded my 2 256MB DDR400 ram for a new stick of DDR400 1GIG. When I got home and put it in the pc booted and installed a fresh new Windows XP on it as well. Now something funny occured and that is my pc can not read my external hard drive (Freeagent with 250 gig),wich the laptop CAN read and works perfectly in there. There is a yellow mark in front of the device manager it says "USB mass Storage device" I have tried to uninstall everything but when it restarts it still can not find the external drive. Am sitting here frustrated thinking what it can be... Can anyone help me!?!? |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 676223 | 2008-06-07 04:45:00 | Delete the ! and reboot. Is SP1, 2 or 3 installed? Does the external hdd go by power? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 676224 | 2008-06-07 04:49:00 | I have tried to del the ! and restarted, I get the same message again, yes it has power.......It works fine in this laptop! silly huh | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 676225 | 2008-06-07 04:55:00 | But is SP1, 2 or 3 installed (Or was one of them slipstreamed), when you installed XP? One of them have to be installed for USB 2 to work |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 676226 | 2008-06-07 05:00:00 | I have the xp cd with SP2, I have just finished formatting again and it made no difference... | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 676227 | 2008-06-07 05:03:00 | Does the BIOS or Windows see it? Does it appear in my computer? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 676228 | 2008-06-07 05:07:00 | Can de BIOS see the external hardrive? Does not come up in my computer | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 676229 | 2008-06-07 05:14:00 | So, you've installed Windows on the desktop, and the external hdd is blank / empty then? If it is, you'll have to format it, thru control panel / admin tools / computer management / disk management. Highlight the external hdd / right mouse / format The hdd on the desktop isnt the only hdd is it? The external hdd is the 2nd hdd?? But then, if the laptop can read it, it sounds like its formatted. Is XP on the laptop as well? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 676230 | 2008-06-07 05:30:00 | no no no, the external hard drive is only for my photos and music, my internal hard drives are fine. I can't seem to get the external one going... |
mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 676231 | 2008-06-07 05:39:00 | Did you install the motherboard drivers? | Jen (38) | ||
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