 External hard drive not working, stupid windows |
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| External hard drive not working, stupid windows |
 Jan 9 2007, 01:14 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 59  |
Hey I just got an external USB hard drive. It's a SATA hard drive and when I plug it in windows reads it as a cdrom drive for whatever reason. So I can't format it, or access it. The only thing i can think of is that it's not formatted or doesn't have a partition table. Anyone got any suggestions?
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Jan 9 2007, 02:15 AM
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 GORILLA FLUFFER  Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
is it one of those that you load a hdd into the casing? Try to load it empty and see if it loads<edit>as a cdrom. If it still does its the usb-cid. And software provided should deal with it.</edit>
--------------------  QUOTE (Jessica @ May 7 2007, 01:15 PM)  but yeehaw dammit. YEEHAW QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 26 2008, 07:51 PM) ok once upon a time I jacked myself off retarded. Licking anuses, one kindergarten class at a time!! |
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Jan 9 2007, 03:02 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 59 |
QUOTE (FORSAKENR320 @ Jan 9 2007, 02:15 AM) is it one of those that you load a hdd into the casing? Try to load it empty and see if it loads<edit>as a cdrom. If it still does its the usb-cid. And software provided should deal with it.</edit> No, it came with the hd already in the casing. An there was no software provided with it, you're supposed to plug it in and it's supposed to work. |
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Jan 9 2007, 03:37 AM
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GORILLA FLUFFER Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
This is chuck btw, what is the model? and have you googled it yet?
-------------------- QUOTE (Jessica @ May 7 2007, 01:15 PM) but yeehaw dammit. YEEHAW QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 26 2008, 07:51 PM) ok once upon a time I jacked myself off retarded. Licking anuses, one kindergarten class at a time!! |
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Jan 9 2007, 05:50 AM
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GORILLA FLUFFER Group: Agents Posts: 7,711 Joined: 23-February 06 From: lubbock Member No.: 50 |
bah! chuck, you shoulda continued letting people think i knew wtf this thread was talking about
-------------------- QUOTE (Jessica @ May 7 2007, 01:15 PM) but yeehaw dammit. YEEHAW QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 26 2008, 07:51 PM) ok once upon a time I jacked myself off retarded. Licking anuses, one kindergarten class at a time!! |
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Jan 9 2007, 06:54 AM
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 Decepticon Commander Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Lubbock Member No.: 44 |
there is no way you could trick anyone to let them think you know what your talking about about
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Jan 9 2007, 11:33 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 59 |
QUOTE (FORSAKENR320 @ Jan 9 2007, 03:37 AM) This is chuck btw, what is the model? and have you googled it yet? Yea, I've googled it , all I get is fucking ads for the damn things. The website of the company is broken so you can't even do shit there either. It's a cavalry CAUI135180 |
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Jan 9 2007, 03:43 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Take it back and get one from a company that doesn't suck.
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Jan 9 2007, 04:09 PM
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 monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
i think the only logical solution is to try to fit 110gigs worth of information onto a 4gig space, am i right?
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Jan 9 2007, 05:52 PM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (lamont's lament @ Jan 9 2007, 04:09 PM) i think the only logical solution is to try to fit 110gigs worth of information onto a 4gig space, am i right? 
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Jan 9 2007, 07:35 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 59 |
Anyone else have anything of value to contribute?
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Jan 10 2007, 08:14 AM
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New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
wait for the manufacturer's website to come back up and then go on there and look for software. Even though its plug in and go, they may have released something to solve this problem.
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Jan 10 2007, 11:02 AM
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 From Atlantis to Interzone Group: Global Moderators Posts: 2,512 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Somewhere in space and time Member No.: 65 |
It sounds to me like a driver issue. You might try uninstalling the driver windows assigned it by default and reinstalling it through windows update (it'll ask if you want to get the driver through windows update when you try to reinstall it).
If the manufacturer didn't provide a driver disk, I'm not sure what else you'd want to try. -------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM) Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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Jan 11 2007, 12:54 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Ja, sounds like a driver thing. Might not be compatible with SP2? Had that problem with a USB 2.0 card not too long ago.
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