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External Hard Drive error
Name: whizz319 Date: March 4, 2005 at 07:00:56 Pacific OS: WINME CPU/Ram: 800MHz, 256MB
Comment:
I recently bought a 40GB Samsung 2.5" hard disk with USB enclosure. It works fine with WINXP on several computers. However, when I tried it on my Toshiba laptop (WINME), it didn't have a drive letter assigned. So, I went to Control Panel/System/Disk assigned a drive letter for this drive. Then I rebooted. Now I can see this new USB hard drive in Windows Explorer.
But the problem is when I click on it (via Windows Explorer), an error message pop up saying that the disk is unformatted and ask me to format it. But I'm sure it's already properly formatted and I've got lots of data in it. It works on other laptops... how can this happen? How can I solve this problem so that WINME can detect this external harddisk properly.
Name: Kurt S Date: March 4, 2005 at 07:27:53 Pacific
Reply:
You say it is recognized in XP but not in ME. It sounds like you have an NTFS partition on it. Windows ME can't natively view NTFS partitions without a third pary application such as this one
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Response Number 2
Name: whizz319 Date: March 5, 2005 at 05:18:29 Pacific
Reply:
I tried that last night but my laptop still detects the external hard drive as not formatted. Any other possibility? or suggestion to solve it?
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