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2012-11-30, 04:33 AM
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External HD problem
 Took my laptop computer to clone the hd onto my new desktop last night. Came home, plugged laptop into all the hds, but they don't show up on windows explorer. The weird thing is on the little devices icon in the lower right hand corner, where I go to eject flash drives, they are there. I looked at properties, and it says they are working properly. Changed settings to show all hidden files & devices...they are still not there? What to do?  
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2012-11-30, 07:50 AM
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Re: External HD problem
Buy a new laptop as well!
Do they show in the device manager?
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2012-11-30, 08:40 AM
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Re: External HD problem
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I was thinking of restoring to machine to the last restore point & if that doesn't work, resetting to original settings. Thoughts?
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2012-11-30, 09:24 AM
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Re: External HD problem
I donīt think you will need to restore, when I had this problem once I just restarted the computer a few times and the external showed up, well worth a try..
Good luck.
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2012-11-30, 09:32 AM
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Re: External HD problem
I've restarted it 4 times. It might not be an issue anyway, since I'm going to plug the hds into the new desktop.
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2012-11-30, 11:30 AM
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Re: External HD problem
Maybe try a different USB port? The top port on my desktop sometimes fails to recognize drives, but if I plug into the back ones it works every time.
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2012-11-30, 11:51 AM
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Re: External HD problem
Tried that. I printed off some stuff that has to do with the start menu that I'm going to try when I get home.
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2012-11-30, 02:37 PM
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Re: External HD problem
i had an external yesterday tell me all the folders were empty even though the free:used space was still correct in my computer. restarted and its all good. even though basically everything's backed up it startled me at first.
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2012-11-30, 06:22 PM
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Re: External HD problem
Amazing....the advice given on 7 forums worked....all is back...thanks for all your help!
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2012-11-30, 07:46 PM
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Re: External HD problem
so the old hit it with a mallet trick worked?
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2012-11-30, 07:53 PM
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Re: External HD problem
ROFL...go into computer from the start menu, manage, then disk management, then right click on the large blue lines....
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2012-12-02, 05:09 AM
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Re: External HD problem
Don't understand initialized, but all the files were still there.
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2012-12-09, 04:22 AM
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