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Name: zayofspb
Date: April 20, 2005 at 11:29:31 Pacific
OS: win xp pro
CPU/Ram: 512mb
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My external 150 gig external hard drive wil not load up on any computer. I have tried mutiple usb cords and three different computers. No computer will recognize it at all. Wondering what could be wrong with it, all lights are ago when plugged in. I only used up 75 gigs at that. What should i do???



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Name: rmackie
Date: April 20, 2005 at 12:28:54 Pacific
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First of all....what type of drive do you have? Have you ensured that other USB devices run on these machines with no problem? Also, do you have only data on this external drive that you would like to load/copy? Do you have an operating system installed on the drive? Also..what exactly do you mean by "will not load up?"

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Name: DCM
Date: April 24, 2005 at 18:09:55 Pacific
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I had a similar problem and found a small label inside the enclosure that told how to set the drive jumpers.

The settings were not the way I thought they should be but it worked fine after I followed their instructions.


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