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From: jay lunis on 1 Feb 2008 10:42
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?
From: Calab on 1 Feb 2008 11:12

"jay lunis" <jay.lunis(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.



From: jay lunis on 1 Feb 2008 11:24
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?
From: RBM on 1 Feb 2008 12:14
Whenever I'm screwing around with accessory hard drives, I have to reboot
the PC for them to be recognized. When I do this, I have to go into the bios
and tell the machine not to boot from the accessory hard drive though




"jay lunis" <jay.lunis(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?


From: jay lunis on 1 Feb 2008 12:38
RBM wrote:
> Whenever I'm screwing around with accessory hard drives, I have to reboot
> the PC for them to be recognized. When I do this, I have to go into the bios
> and tell the machine not to boot from the accessory hard drive though
>
>
>
>
> "jay lunis" <jay.lunis(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3JHoj.30$ED.4(a)newsfe06.lga...
>> Calab wrote:
>>> "jay lunis" <jay.lunis(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:y5Hoj.7$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?
>
>
OK, rebooted. Still not showing in Explorer. No change in Disk Management.
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