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From: Pen on 1 Feb 2008 16:09
jay lunis wrote:
> Calab wrote:
>> "jay lunis" <jay.lunis(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:y5Hoj.7$l_3.3(a)newsfe02.lga...
>>> HP desktop PC with Vista Home Premium
>>> I do not know if my problem is with the PC, Vista, or my HD.
>>> Bought the HP a few weeks ago and, today, got around to moving my Western
>>> Digital USB HD to the new PC. Or, I tried to.
>>> It was working perfectly in the old PC. Disconnected it and moved it to
>>> the new PC. Nothing. Vista does not seem to detect I plugged a device in
>>> a USB port. It 'found' the wireless mouse adapter when it was plugged in
>>> and the bluetooth dongle when it was plugged in. But with the USB HD . .
>>> . nothing.
>>> Tried Control Panel|Add Hardware. No new Hardware Detected.
>>> How do I troubleshoot this?
>> Any encryption on this drive? It may not let you move it to a new PC to
>> protect the content.
>>
>> It's also possible that it found it without even showing any notification.
>> If you go into Drive Management do you see the drive there?
>>
>> Unfortunately not sure of where to find this in Vista, but in XP you do:
>>
>> Right click "My computer" -> Manage -> Disk Managment
>>
>> Each drive will be shown on the right side, with drive letters and status.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Encryption - none
>
> Does show up in Drive Management, I think. My USB is Western Digital.
> The unknown drive in Disk Management is Western Digital. Both show 120G
> HD. Sound like it to me. Here is the Disk Management data
> Volume - blank
> Type - Basic
> File system - RAW
> Status - Healthy (active, Primary partition)
> Online
> What have I learned?
You need to assign a drive letter. Read my other post. It';s not hard.
From: Calab on 1 Feb 2008 17:21
>> Encryption - none
>>
>> Does show up in Drive Management, I think. My USB is Western Digital.
>> The unknown drive in Disk Management is Western Digital. Both show 120G
>> HD. Sound like it to me. Here is the Disk Management data
>> Volume - blank
>> Type - Basic
>> File system - RAW
>> Status - Healthy (active, Primary partition)
>> Online
>> What have I learned?

> You need to assign a drive letter. Read my other post. It';s not hard.

As long as the file system is "RAW", there is nothing you can do with the
data on that hard drive. You won't be able to assign a drive letter to it.
Your only real hope is to put it back on the old PC and copy the data from
the drive.

It's very odd that the old PC can use the drive, but not the new PC.


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