I have two external 2.5" drives and a corsair pendrive which all used to work absolutely fine, but now none of them register. I just get a message saying usb drive not recognised. I have tried all three of them in my desktop, laptop and my netbook and get the same result. They all used to work fine... cant fathom this one!!!
external hard drive problem using windows xp
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cheers - I don't think that will help in this instance though. I used Acronis True Image to make an image of my C drive just after I did a complete fresh install of everything in January. This way, if ever I have a major problem I can roll out that image and be back to fresh within an hour... rolled out the image today and still having the same problem!!!
I opened up the external caddies and took out both hard drives. Then I popped them into a powered caddie and they worked fine so I reformatted them and put them back into the 2.5" caddies again to see if it fixed the problem but no joy!
I don't think the USB ports are providing enough power... anyway of checking this or fixing it?
I opened up the external caddies and took out both hard drives. Then I popped them into a powered caddie and they worked fine so I reformatted them and put them back into the 2.5" caddies again to see if it fixed the problem but no joy!
I don't think the USB ports are providing enough power... anyway of checking this or fixing it?