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Hi all.
I recently built a new PC (2 days ago) with Windows Vista x64. I just tried saving a picture to my external HDD and it came up with this message;
I basically can't save anything to my external HDD. It was fine on my old PC.
What does that message mean and what do I need to do?
| jackieboy wrote : you will have to reformat that external hd within vista......then you will be able to save files on it........k |
I have just completely formatted the drive and I still can't copy/move files onto it.
I get this;
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