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external hard drive not recognized in Windows XP "My Computer"

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ddambrosi

Discussion Starter · Mar 20, 2004

I recently bought a Western Digital firewire/USB 2.0 combo drive for my Dell laptop running Windows XP Home edition. It worked fine once. When I went to use it again it would not register in "My Computer." It is recognized in device manager and no conflicts appear. There are no new/rolled back drivers available. In Disk Management in Console it appears but shows a large portion of unallocated space. Uninstalling and reinstalling does not work.

Could there be a corrupt Windows file? Does anyone have any suggestions?

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alwrmc

· #4 · Mar 20, 2004

Just a possibility...I purchased an ACOMDATA external HD 3-4 months back. Installed and it worked perfectly the first time. After that it would not show up just as you described. I contacted ACOMDATA and they said that I need to turn it off when finished using it and on again when I need to access it. I can of course leave it on once I have it turned on as long as the computer itself is on and working. Since then I have had no problems. Still I find that have to turn it on each time is rather odd but I can live with that.

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