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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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?
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...
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...
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...
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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'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...
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First of all, apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but i need help from somebody.
I recently bought a new laptop that uses vista, i want to use my western digital external hard drive with it but it doesn't recognise it all the time.
I have used the external drive on my old laptop...