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Vista Explorer Doesnt See Secondary

Original Message

Name: brianosaur
Date: February 8, 2008 at 12:21:14 Pacific
Subject: Vista Explorer Doesnt See Secondary
OS: Vist 64bit
CPU/Ram: Core4 2.4 // 4gigs

Comment:

My primary drive works fine and vista is running. I use a secondary HDD for backup files. This drive is detected in Bios and in Vista Device Mgr, however vista explorer does not 'see' it at all. What now? Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: Sabertooth
Date: February 8, 2008 at 21:38:08 Pacific

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Disk management console?

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Response Number 2

Name: DVB
Date: February 9, 2008 at 07:09:39 Pacific

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I would go into disk managemnet console and reformat secondary hdd and that should take care of it. Also remember that the physical size and the formatted size are different.

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Response Number 3

Name: brianosaur
Date: February 9, 2008 at 08:08:31 Pacific

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I was hoping NOT to lose all my data by reformatting the drive.

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Response Number 4

Name: Sabertooth
Date: February 9, 2008 at 08:40:40 Pacific

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In that case, try an external enclosure & connect the backup HDD via USB or FireWire.

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Response Number 5

Name: dellbhoy
Date: February 10, 2008 at 14:47:42 Pacific

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I've got the exact same problem. Funny thing is winamp, WMP etc can still find the files. But vista explorer can't!!!

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