External hard drive not recognized

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  1. rnatlo

    rnatlo Member

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    I recently had my cpu crash and had a friend of a friend restore it...when i got it back it worked fine but i have 3 external hard drives with all of my files (2 new mybooks and 1 older maxtor)
    when i tried to plug in the External HD...
    the 2 new ones worked fine but the older one came up with this error(malfuntion usb device not recognized) when i tried to plug it in. this device has worked in the past and I was wonderering what i have to do to get it working again?
     
    rnatlo, Jul 9, 2009
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    It shows up as an unknown device under my USB list...any thoughts???
     
    rnatlo, Jul 11, 2009
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    have you tried uninstalling it from device manager & restart windows so it can find new hardware & load it's driver?
     
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    yeah i tried that with the same results.
     
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