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 Sep 19 2008, 01:36 PM
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 Playing Polo  Group: Elite Posts: 2,151 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Sunninghill, South Africa Member No.: 1,575 Sex: Male  |
Howdy all, I have a strange hardware issue. I have a 160GB HDD in my external carriage. Now, it shows up on my laptop and on my spare desktop but not on my primary machine. Really confusing. I am gonna try playing with the USB legacy support settings in the BIOS on my machine but both the external carriage and the machines USB ports are 2.0. I also tried to use the firewire cable but the result is the same. I'll update this thread tomorrow or sunday once I've changed the USB Legacy support, any idea's? This post has been edited by rurounikenshin: Sep 21 2008, 12:15 PM -------------------- Current Baby:
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Sep 20 2008, 03:39 AM
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 The Dark Elf Group: Elite Posts: 527 Joined: 7-May 03 From: Johannesburg, South Africa (Proudly) Member No.: 1,140 Sex: Male |
Stupid, but did you try disk management and changing the drive letter of the drive for that machine?
Sometimes shared/other drives keep the drive letter it tries to assign to the external. -------------------- <null signature>
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Sep 21 2008, 02:42 AM
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Playing Polo Group: Elite Posts: 2,151 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Sunninghill, South Africa Member No.: 1,575 Sex: Male |
Ah! Havent tried that yet. Will give it a bash and update the thread a bit later.
Thanks for the feedback mate. |
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Sep 21 2008, 12:17 PM
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Playing Polo Group: Elite Posts: 2,151 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Sunninghill, South Africa Member No.: 1,575 Sex: Male |
Problem solved!
Hehe! On my laptop the external assumed drive letter E, on my spare desktop it assumed drive letter G, so I set the externals drive letter to Z on all the machine and now it works 100% the way it should. Thanks for the tip Val! Hehe. |
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Sep 22 2008, 01:05 AM
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 Gave my left testicles to research in stem cell tech :(  Group: V9 Mod Posts: 9,630 Joined: 5-August 03 From: Johannesburg Member No.: 1,474 Sex: Male |
rofl... also if you have drives mapped... the management would simple place it on the same drive as the mapped drive
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Sep 22 2008, 01:52 AM
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Playing Polo Group: Elite Posts: 2,151 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Sunninghill, South Africa Member No.: 1,575 Sex: Male |
I think the problem was all the mounted ISO drives I had while "trouble shooting" the problem.
Drive E on the new PC was a William Cooper Alien Conspiracy Theory video I was watching. So I think that drive letter was still being assigned to the ISO even after it was dismounted and the External HDD plugged in. I would've thought it would just assume drive letter F? Was hella confused, and then seriously wmbarrest after changing the drive letter to Z: Why didn't I try/think of that first? Burr! |
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