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08-17-2008, 04:30 PM
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Just here for the beer.
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Floriduh
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USB external HDD not showing up in XP Pro.
Hi all. Weird problem here: I have an external PATA hard drive in a USB enclosure. It shows up in Hardware but not when I go to My Computer. Just shows my C: drive as far as Hard Drives go. It's got a Linux distro on it. I would like to format it and use it in XP again. I need the space. Any ideas?
XP Pro, SP3 Core 2, 2 GB DDR2 etc.
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08-17-2008, 04:45 PM
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Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Go to start, run, type in compmgmt.msc, go to disk management
See if your hard drive is there with a wrong drive letter...if you see it, right click on it and go to change drive letter, change it to L or something and it should show up |
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08-17-2008, 05:21 PM
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Upright
Location: reykjavík, iceland
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i have mine as dynamic and have to activate it. wrote a script which may help:
c:\>diskpart /s c:\windows\online.txt online.txt: select disk 1 online
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