unrecognized external hard drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I have a Lacie firewire and maxtor usb external drives that are recognized in device magager and in system tools drive manager but do not show up any where else....

it is running on AC power, but that battery status is idle even though battery level is for example only at 60%. If I boot the machine on Ac Power it halts and says unrecognized external supply and press F1 to continue boot or F2 to enter Bios. I have...

Even if CDs last for generations, there's no way to know that they'll still > be viable as a resource -- like 5 1/4-inch floppies. Nobody has drives for > those that you've still got laying around. I've got working 5.25" drives, and professional data transfer...

used to download photos from camera cards and then transfer them to a computer over a UBS port. In essence, it is seen as an external hard drive. Previously I used it with my Dell Dimension 4100 running Windows XP Pro and with my Dell Latitude C400...

on the motherboard are USB 2.0. The Vantec "SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 adapter" is USB 2.0 and is designed to power and connect an internal hard drive located on the outside of the machine to an external USB port on the computer. When I connect a SATA hard drive to...

in D and E drive. If I can be able to get that back, will be fine for me. Later I using external USB connector and tried to connect in another syste. as external disk. The drive again is recognized but I get this error message "Volume information for this...

When the Vantec adapter/device is connected to an XP laptop and a Win2K desktop, there are no problems whatsoever. (Except that the XP laptop reads the external hard drive as an *internally installed* hard drive...which doesn't make sense to me, but it functions...

I did it but I'm sure you can initiate a disk check from there. :lol: audiovoodoo I would suggest ubuntu 8.04 or fedora 9 first over the xp repair options, if you manage to read your drive run a backup under linux to DVD-R or an external drive. After you...

had many issues initially but, doing a “clean” installation AFTER saving my documents, email address and pictures to a removable external hard drive, REALLY helped. That (clean installation) returned my high definition sound to all applications and fixed...

Is my external disk dead? (Maxtor OneTouch Easy III). Hello to all. I'm facing this strange problem with a Maxtor OneTouch Easy III external disk (500GB) connected via USB. The disk was working perfectly straight for 2+ years without any problems. Due to...