- Jul 24, 2012
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I am not sure what is happening but it was working prior to a few days ago.
I have an external Western Digital passport hard drive plugged into my computers front USB 3.0 port. It works for a while and I can access all files and write to it but after a few minutes it disappears from My Computer. The light of the HDD is still on though and I can hear it spinning.
It doesn't matter which front USB port I plug it into, eventually it will disappear.
Also when I plug it into a front USB 2.0 port it says USB device not recognized or has malfunctioned. Perhaps I no longer have the proper USB drivers? My USB headphones work and my ipod charges in the 2.0 ports. Do I need to do something with my chipset drivers? I am not sure which drivers control the USB ports.
Does anyone know whats wrong? Device Manager says everything is OK. Maybe I need to do something with my USB ports?
I recently had an internal HDD fail but I managed to ghost it to a backup HDD, so maybe that caused it?
Here are my specs if it helps:
Windows 7 64 bit. Service Pack 1.
Motherboard: MSI Z77A G45.
Thanks a lot!
I have an external Western Digital passport hard drive plugged into my computers front USB 3.0 port. It works for a while and I can access all files and write to it but after a few minutes it disappears from My Computer. The light of the HDD is still on though and I can hear it spinning.
It doesn't matter which front USB port I plug it into, eventually it will disappear.
Also when I plug it into a front USB 2.0 port it says USB device not recognized or has malfunctioned. Perhaps I no longer have the proper USB drivers? My USB headphones work and my ipod charges in the 2.0 ports. Do I need to do something with my chipset drivers? I am not sure which drivers control the USB ports.
Does anyone know whats wrong? Device Manager says everything is OK. Maybe I need to do something with my USB ports?
I recently had an internal HDD fail but I managed to ghost it to a backup HDD, so maybe that caused it?
Here are my specs if it helps:
Windows 7 64 bit. Service Pack 1.
Motherboard: MSI Z77A G45.
Thanks a lot!
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