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    Vista Business and External Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by alexkolb1, Jan 4, 2008.

  1. alexkolb1

    alexkolb1 Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,

    I have a WD MyBook 250gb external drive.
    It works fine but when my system is up, and I plug in the USB wire, hard drive powers up immediately, but takes around 2 minutes to appear in "computer" and become usable, any ideas?

    Also when I have the hard drive plugged in, Vista takes about 5 minutes to boot up, even though external is disabled in BIOS, so I just keep it unplugged whenever I restart.

    So ideas?
     
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  2. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Same with my 500gb. I think its the drive, because i have 2 other externals (that i made) and they are near instantly ready. It must be something with the WD's not vista.
     
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  3. alexkolb1

    alexkolb1 Notebook Consultant

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    It is probably the drivers for or something , since it was instant in XP
     
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