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    M17x r3 not detecting external hard drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by GuitarFreak, Jan 5, 2013.

  1. GuitarFreak

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    I have a USB 3 external hard drive that was being detected and working perfectly fine with this laptop the other day, but now it's not being detected. Opening up disk management, I see this:

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    It's detecting it, but not assigning it a drive letter or anything, and I can't manually assign one. In the devices and printers, it shows up as a USB 3.0 SATA bridge. Any ideas on how to get this working? It works perfectly fine on another laptop.
     
    GuitarFreak, Jan 5, 2013
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    Huh, fixed it. I just went into the device manager, uninstalled it, unplugged it, and plugged it back in. That seemed to work just fine. Odd issue.
     
    GuitarFreak, Jan 5, 2013
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    That could happen with any device. Next time just repeat the same steps. I normally disconnect it and reconnect it a couple of times and do some reboots :p
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jan 9, 2013
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