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    External Hard Drive w/ Vista 32 - Can't get to work

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pocketgamer, Sep 9, 2007.

  1. pocketgamer

    pocketgamer Notebook Consultant

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    I recently bought a PT External Hard Drive enclosure for my WD 160g HD and my 80g Seagate. The Enclosure

    Everything powers up properly, and then windows makes the sound of it recognizing the Hard Drive, but then it fails to set up the correct driver and then disconnects the device.

    Anyone have any similar experiences that know what I can do to get this working?

    As an important side note, I hooked it up to a computer w/ XP and it worked immediately, but then Norton or something detected malware, and I allowed it to delete what it found on the Hard drive, and then it disconnected the Hard Drive and now it won't connect like with my Vista Laptop.


    Thanks
     
    pocketgamer, Sep 9, 2007
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    RasBastard Notebook Consultant

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    Well assuming that the drive still works on the XP machine i would highly recommend you use that machine to access the data that you desire and burn it to DVD's so that you have a backup copy and you can use it in your vista machine. Its possible that your only course of action may be to format the drive and start fresh so that it works both in the XP and Vista machines.
     
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