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Old February 7th, 2011, 04:39 PM
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Vista wont recognizes older WD External hard drive

Hello great Wizards, I have an older 250 gig My Book external hard drive with very important info on it.. 99% of the time Vista doesn't recognize the drive. Once and while I do see it when I click on "Computer" with all the other drives. Currently I can not get it to show up at all. The weird part is it shows up in the "Safely remove hardware pane" and the Control Panel-Device Manager-hard drives. When you rt click on Computer-manage-Disk management it shows "Disk 2 unknown -not initialized" ?? I have tried the following:

Reboot several times
Plugged AC wire directly into wall
Changes USB wires
Used different ports
Used fire wire
Used different computer (with Vista)

Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Carrera

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Old February 8th, 2011, 12:17 AM
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Old February 8th, 2011, 03:33 AM
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Look under the help section on your vista computer and search format. This will instruct you how to open the folder that shows all of the hd's. It should show up in there. Where was the external used before?
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Old February 8th, 2011, 05:33 AM
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carrera, just use your thread in the hardware forum. I'll ask that this one is closed.
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