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Hi ... I bet it wouldn't show in the disk management area , because i had
similar problems with my computer , I have a external hard drive as well but
what i usually do is go to devise manager , open the usb controllers ,
notice the one with the yellow check mark , uninstall it , then rescan for
hardware changes afterward it would work , or i would just do a quick plug
in and out and in again and that works just as well... Oh yeah and i would
always safely close or remove the drive after i am finish with it
"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Hot plug is not suitable for large USB storage device.
> Did you not using the safely remove icon to unplug the ext. Hdd last time
> you access windows?
> Try go to disk management and initialize the drive.
> Right click My Computer/Manage/Disk Management
> Double click disk management, can you see the large removable storage
> device?
> If yes, right click on it and click initialize drive
> Note: don't format it or you will lose all the data files
>
> To protect the data files on the ext. Hdd, try attach the ext. hdd to
> other
> XP PC to check whether it can recognize it before doing anything.
>
> Peter
>
>
> "PC_Doc" wrote:
>
>> Try doing this , when it show unknown just do a quick pull out and put
>> back
>> in , just do a quick out and in again ... I would believe your external
>> HDD
>> is 5200 rpm and are you using front ports ???
>>
>>
>> "vijay" <vijay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news
B7ACA03-B12E-404E-9209-77224639BD7B@microsoft.com...
>> > hi
>> > I am getting fed up with usb ports i added an external hard drive
>> > formatted
>> > it with xp and then downloaded files to it. Today it is not showing up
>> > it
>> > is
>> > there in device manager as unknow and i cannot initialise it. Any ideas
>>
>>
>>
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