External Hard Drive Troubles

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by jorahan, Aug 10, 2006.

  1. jorahan

    jorahan Guest

    Well hiya guys,
    My hard drive (external) has a problem. Yesterday i formatted my PC and re-installed my copy of windows. I put all my stuff on my hard drive. Now it just doent work, i plug it in, it makes the satisfying beep. Then it said it is installed and ready to use! But, it doensnt appear in "My Computer" then i went to hard ware manager then to USB Mass storage device. It reads it, then i go into it, it reads it as a hard disk then when i click the 'Volumes' tab i populate the list and everything comes up, except for the volumes itself :(

    http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/Nsignificant/1.jpg

    http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k67/Nsignificant/6.jpg

    please help guys,
     
  2. iani_2006

    iani_2006 Regular member

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    Hmmm thats a strange problem ... did you go to disk management ? and if yes did it show your hard drive ?
     
  3. jorahan

    jorahan Guest

    yes that was the picture
     
  4. iani_2006

    iani_2006 Regular member

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    wel that was the picture from device manager now i want u to go to Disk Manager and see what it shows ?
     
  5. elokito

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    that same thing hapened to me make sure u installed the motherboard drivers that probably will fix it
     
  6. jorahan

    jorahan Guest

    thanks guyz so much, but u didnt help me in time :) i formatted this mornning with windows disc, now i am kicking myself.
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