recognition issues

Windows Users Face Significant Challenges Following Recent Updates Microsoft’s routine update cycles, intended to enhance security and user experience, have recently delivered an unintended set of disruptions for both Windows 11 and Windows 10 users. The latest updates, particularly the...

I have a custom built PC running Windows 10 Home that will not recognize my external HDD. The drive is a brand new 160gb WD Scorpio Blue, and the case is a new Sabrent EC-UASP. My other Windows 10 devices, as well as my Dell chrome book, will recognize the drive. Upon plugging the device into...

Hi, (I'm not sure if this issue should be posted under hardware or software) Up until a few weeks ago everything was fine. As far as I know, no new hardware or software was installed on my Win 7 PC. During the last few weeks, external disks or disk-on-key connected to the PC are not...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

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Hi, I have a "SanDisk Ultra CompactFlash" 4GB card and an internal card reader (HP desktop). When I insert the card into the reader, the green light above the slot turns on as if it recognizes the device, but it doesn't show up. Device Manager says that the driver is installed and working...

I have two drives by seagate 1tb and 500gb. The 1tb drive is highspeed but when i plug it into the 3.0usb ss it does not show up. Im stuck using the 2.0 drive. Can anyone give any help on this?

Hello, I connected my USB Microsoft LifeCam to my computer and it worked fine for a while. Today I tried using it and the computer says that it does not recognize the device. I never even disconnected it and it stopped working. I tried reinstalling the drivers and I reconnected it a bunch of...

Okay I have been having this problem for the past two months or so where my BIOS and/or Windows 7 is only sporadically recognizing my two optical drives and my external HD. I can't seem to find a fix! First, here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 Motherboard...

I have a 1 Tb external SATA HDD in a powered enclosure. Connection is by USB or eSATA. Win 7 disk management recognises the existence of the disk as basic online but thinks it is only 8 Gb. The disk does not appear in 'My Computer' and I cannot format it as a 1Tb disk or write to it...

When I plug in my external HDD I hear the USB noise, but it does not show up under My Computer. It does however show up and it allows me to safely remove the device, though it doesn't have the original device's name (FlexDrive). So instead of "Eject Flexdrive" it says "Eject External". I've...

Had a lovely new Sony VPC laptop with Windows 7, following the death of my old one. Anyway, working lovely for a month. Tried to plub my iphone usb in yesterday to transfer some pics, and the comp wouldn't recognise it. Didn't appear in windows explorer, device manager, anywhere at all...

Hi I have just bought a revo 3600 nettop for use as a media centre and a LITEON usb dvd rom drive. I tested the usb drive on my main computer running win7 ultimate and it works fine. when i plug it in to the revo running win7 ultimate it shows up in device manager ok but does not show in "my...

WE have implemented our 1st Win7 machine overall it's working pretty well. However we have 2 WD passport drives, the machine will discover and open the files on one but not the other. I also tried to access an ide drive through an adaptor and it would not recognise that either. This is a brand...

details 64 bit dvd game x3 terran conflict i installed the game just fine initially, however i got the" you have to be administrator to run this game 1st time i have seen the answer to that on here, however having un installed the game to try and solve the problem, the disk drive d...

i installed windows 7 and immediately had problems. after spending literally days worth of time on the phone to Microsoft support my original problem remains,they can't fix it. but my latest problem,which they can't fix either is my computer no longer recognizes my external hard drive through...

Hi, I have a Toshiba p205 s-6287 laptop. My OS is windows 7 home premium 64-bit. My card reader isn't working either with a direct plug-in to the reader or through the USB port with the adapter. I have a Sony Cyber Shot DSC 7 digital camera. I can attach the camera through the USB port and...

I've got Windows 7 RC installed on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (dual boot with openSuse 11.1). I have a 250 GB USB external SATA HDD in a NexStar3 enclosure recognized in ‘Device Manager – Disk Drives’ as ‘Maxtor 6 V250F0 USB Device’. 'Properties' tell me the device...

I'm using the release candidate and whenever I plug in my Western Digital Passport USB external hard drive, I get nothing. It doesn't show up in device manager or in My Computer. The light on the harddrive comes on and the drive spins up, so I know it's working. Windows just won't recognize it...

Anyone has an idea, why it can't recognise my external hdd (WD2500JB)? I plug it in, I hear the sound, and then nothing. It's trying to install a driver, but it fails. Then it will show in the device manager, as "USB Mass Storage Device" In the safely remove wizard it's an unrecognised USB...