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Hi,
I just got a external usb hard drive and when I connect it I can't find it on my computer.
I have looked in device manager and it's there, but I don't know how to find it to use.
Does anyone know how to get in under the My Computer screen?
thanks,
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Did it come with a CD or are there drivers on the maker's website?
(In my computer) It should just show up as a hard drive labeled "-letter- external media" or something along those lines and it should act like any other HDD, you just click to open it and do whatever you want.
uhm, sata isn't usb external. That may be the drive inside the housing.. If you're using some type of aftermarket external HDD housing then we need that model number.
My firewire external (used over the last 2 days to restore a fried HDD :-\) shows up as ibook (D: ) under hard disk drives.... It doesn't indicate it is external.
pick which one is yours. download it. Unzip the files. go to device manager, find it, right click it, update driver it should find the one on your desktop. install restart.
If that doesn't help. OR option #2 go to device manager, right click remove drive. restart computer. when it looks for the driver point to new downloaded driver folder.
That's the weirdest thing because the same thing has been happening with my PSP and my camera. I just shut down the computer and re started it and it was fine.
Dunno what to tell you. When I asked for a model number he told me the type and size of the HDD inside the case. So I don't exactly trust his model numbers ;-)
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