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external USB HD
Name: rich.jt Date: December 31, 2005 at 15:11:32 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 1.8GHSZ 1GIG
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Hi, When I turn on my external USB HD case I hear a beep so windows detects it Nothing new appears in my computer so I went to control panel ADD/HARDWARE and it appeared on the list there, I have no idea how to activate it so I can use it. It is a zero drive. Help would be appreciated.
Name: blackbill Date: December 31, 2005 at 15:24:49 Pacific
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Maybe it is just wsimply not refreshing. Try clicking the REFRESH button in the view menu when in the My computer folder
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Response Number 2
Name: rich.jt Date: December 31, 2005 at 15:43:29 Pacific
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I tried refresh in my computer to no avail.
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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth Date: December 31, 2005 at 16:02:29 Pacific
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"It is a zero drive"....meaning what ?
I agree; computing.net does need an edit button.
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Response Number 4
Name: Paul Fahrenbach Date: December 31, 2005 at 20:07:43 Pacific
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Has the drive ever be formated and work on this computer ?
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Response Number 5
Name: rich.jt Date: January 1, 2006 at 02:14:36 Pacific
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It has been formatted and worked on the computer, then I had it made like new, zeroed.
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Response Number 6
Name: rich.jt Date: January 1, 2006 at 03:35:42 Pacific
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Further info which might make a difference in Windows. I had a spare USB cable coonected to the USB 5 port card which I installed, printer, camera, scanner work fine, so I used that spare cable to connect my external USB HD. There are two motherboard USH ports, one is used for my USB keyboard and the other one is free, as the printer was moved to the USB card. Will it improve the chance by moving the spare cable?
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Response Number 7
Name: trvlr Date: January 1, 2006 at 11:10:23 Pacific
and look for an unallocated or uninitialised drive; right-click on that drive and then click on "initialise"; then if need-be follow on-screen instructions etc. re' partitioning/formatting etc...
It may do what's required...? It did for my recent/new usb drive...
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Response Number 8
Name: rich.jt Date: January 2, 2006 at 08:24:31 Pacific
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Hi again, I was logged in administrater went to admin tools, computer management, disk management and tound newvolume F: so it was there. Then I right clicked on my mouse and set initalize, after that right click gave me more options, I selected format, the choices were, primary drive logical drive so I chosre logical drive, rightly or wrongly had to enter some more info I think. When it finished the process I went to my computer and there it was. To make sure I went to view, refresh.
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