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Vista & External Hard Drive - Not Recognized
... microsoft public windows vista installation_setup New hard drives typically have zeros in every byte of every sector and is not recognized by the operating system. I installed a new hard drive D in my laptop, the drive is found in device manger but not anywhere else, in vista. I really could do with help, Amy.

Vista doesn't recognize my hard drive when installing
Chris Ch...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I got myself deeper in the hole by removing the hard drives and placing them back in there and now they are not recognized by the bios. Any thought on that? The jumper settings seems to be as before. Thanks!

Vista & External Hard Drive - Not Recognized
For Data Recovery, if it is not recognized by BIOS, it's likely a Clean Room issue, typically starting at about $900 and going up to about $3000 to $4000. 1- The main hard drive in my desktop computer crashed. It's a 250mb Western Digital hard drive that's had about 3 years of daily use; about 8 hrs/day.

USB Device error in Vista
I have the problem that Richard described below on new hardware that has 1 hard drive installed. I have duplicated my vista boot dvd and keep it in the drive all the It is not there. Part of it resides on another drive where it is not recognized. If the user puts the DVD into the drive tray, Vista boots fine.

USB Drive not recognized - Driving me crazy!!!
The results were as before .... the device (printer) was not recognized. I don't know, perhaps I have to uninstall the USB 2.0 controller card and I have also found with respect to USB connected hard drives that if you put a different hard drive in the same USB enclosure, Windows will often recognize it.

Missing Hard Drive with Windows Vista Ultimate
I DO NOT want to use the controller provided by Umax. This will be the only external device of the SCSI chain. I have a SCSI hard drive (ID0), IOMega Jaz (ID1) and a Plextor CD-ROM (ID4). The problems I have noticed are: - If I connect the scanner to my machine as shipped from factory (ID5), it is not recognized by

Hard Disk Failure
Dibond Dib...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup When I get to the part of vista installation where it asks I have checked multiple times that the hard drive is hooked up correctly, but they are still not found. My hard drive is a Western Digital SATA SE Caviar 500GB.

External USB Hard Drive not working, Vista asking for drivers
Is there, perhaps, a Vista USB 2.0 driver which the 'Wizard' dare not reject? Re your 14 points: 1 & 2 : I don't have Disk Management - Classic view? 3. We continually encounter situations where a USB 2.0 device - generally involving a flash drive or USB external hard drive, will work perfectly fine in one

(Fwd) WinNews - Vol. 2 #20
I have a Simple Tech 250 gig external (USB) hard drive that I moved over from my previous XP laptop. My Simple Tech external hard drive worked just fine with XP, but with my new Vista laptop the external hard drive is recognized very infrequently and usually only after a restart. Even then the data is only visable

HDD not recognized
Don don195...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Peter K wrote: I have two IDE hard disks, to be used as external hard disks for backups. ... The hard disk for the second one is an IBM Deskstar, 80 GB... Well, this may be relevant, depending on when the disk was manufactured.

Vista & External Hard Drive - Not Recognized
I have a new Dell Latitude P520 laptop with Vista Business addition. I have a Simple Tech 250 gig external (USB) hard drive that I moved over from my previous XP laptop. My Simple Tech external hard drive worked just fine with XP, but with my new Vista laptop the external hard drive is recognized very infrequently

USB Hub not recognized
Rita1107 Rita1...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Freddy: I have an external hard drive that is not recognized by my computer. When I hook it up to the laptop, it works fine. But, not with the desktop. I believe that it has something to do with that darn VISTA o/s.

Vista will not boot - work around
Even then the data is only visable or recognized for a short period of time and then the computer can no longer access the data (a message says "your file has been moved or is no longer in this location") Is there a reliable solution to making Vista and USB external hard drives work together. Note, I'm not a "high

Esata drive not recognized
teho t...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices hello everyone! i have a problem: my hid compatible usb devices such as i'm not sure where i need to look to solve the problem! i tested many usb flash drives, external usb hard drive, ipod, card reader -- all works perfect,

2nd Hard-Drive - Not Recognized
As it import the email of the Outlook Express 6.0 of the XP for the Windows Mail of the Windows Vista. I tried to import for identity but is option is destivada. I tried to import for paste, but the old one DBX do not be recognized. I tried to import email by email but the stretch eml is not recognized.

2nd Hard-Drive - Not Recognized
If the Bios does not see it then that is a hardware problem or bad cable connection from the power cable or communications cable. -- Quad Core "Dibond" wrote: When I get to the "choose what drive you wish to install to" step it doesn't detect my hard drive (which is a WD Caviar SE 500GB).

USB Drive not recognized - Driving me crazy!!!
My copy of Vista is Vista Home Premium. My hardware is a home-built desktop with 512 MB of memory, a 40 GB hard drive, a floppy drive, a CD drive, a DVD drive, The only glitch I experienced was that my (quite old) CD-ROM drive was not recognized. This, however, may have nothing to do with Vista.

USB Hub not recognized
The Vista Backup system that's included in the Vista Ultra version backs up almost the entire hard drive, just like the backup program that's included in XP. For Data Recovery, if it is not recognized by BIOS, it's likely a Clean Room issue, typically starting at about $900 and going up to about $3000 to $4000.

USB Hub not recognized
Not Me cargodZero...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general reinstall the software for it? is the onboard USB acting up? it may be you need to I am running vista ultimate and having problems with the multiple USB Hub devices on the system. Due to some external hard drive issues I was told to do two

Vista & External Hard Drive - Not Recognized
Hi I have a Vaio notebook with vista business and 80 GB HD. I wanted to upgrade to a 160 GB so I backed up my whole pc using windows backup to an external HD. the new HD was installed and I tried to restore my PC using the recovery disc . the backup files however are not recognized. my old HD is still operational