- Dec 28, 2013
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Over the holidays, my sister got a brand new portable 1TB harddrive by toshiba. She wanted to clone her current disk onto an old laptop, but the laptop will not boot from the usb.
To investigate, I tried to boot my own laptop from the usb, but that didn't work. I connected the harddrive to my own computer, and while there's an icon telling me that a peripheral device can be safely removed, it does not show up as an available drive. I looked at the disk management panel, and it's simply not there.
The connections are good, the power light goes on when conneted to a computer, everything seems to be fine except that I can't use it at all.
Any ideas?
To investigate, I tried to boot my own laptop from the usb, but that didn't work. I connected the harddrive to my own computer, and while there's an icon telling me that a peripheral device can be safely removed, it does not show up as an available drive. I looked at the disk management panel, and it's simply not there.
The connections are good, the power light goes on when conneted to a computer, everything seems to be fine except that I can't use it at all.
Any ideas?
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