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External USB2.0 hard drive
Name: tictac242 Date: March 28, 2004 at 04:23:02 Pacific OS: win XP CPU/Ram: 2600 768meg
Comment:
I have an external USB hard drive saegate 80gig. When I plug it in it sees the USB connection and recognises the Hard drive I can see it in devices but not in explorer or disk management. When I go into devices I can see the Drive with external written next to the label. When I go to properties volumes populate It tells me that the drive is unreadable. What does this mean??? I works fine as a secondary slave when connected to the IDE bus.
Its an 80 gig seagate
And heres another thing. I put a 4.3 gig seagate in and it sees it fine all i had to do was initiate and format
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