Hard drive dissapeared when connecting mouse

greedy123 · 28 Sep 2009 at 23:01

For the third time now, when swapping my new Razer Mamba mouse from wired to wireless, my external USB hard drive has vanished from my computer. It is still turned on and vista makes the connected/disconnected sound when you turn it on and off but doesn't reappear in my computer. It does come back if I restart/log out and in but it shouldn't do this. Any ideas?

greedy123 · 29 Sep 2009 at 06:29

They are both connected using the same USB hub, might that cause an issue?

greedy123 · 29 Sep 2009 at 22:40

External 4 port one, had it a few years with no problem. But even after the drive dissapears, if i connect is to any other port on the motherboard it still won't re-appear until I reboot.

greedy123 · 30 Sep 2009 at 06:59

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