It sounds like possibly your partition table may have gotten corrupted. When you say on XP it does not show up, do you mean in disk management, or where? Also, on Vista what indications does disk management give, unallocated partition, unformatted partition or what?
On Aug 23, 5:56 pm, Mike Retif <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 320gb MyBook and I am having a problem connecting it to my > computer. I am not sure what happened but when I went to transfer > some files, the drive disappeared off of My Computer. The drive does > shows up on the connected devices and I can safely remove it but > cannot open it. I have looked at the cables and power and everything > looks good. > > On my computer with 64bit vista, I can see the drive using disk > management. It asks me to initialize (i was hesitant to do so) and I > get an I/O error. On my computer with XP, the drive does not even > show up. > > I should have been backing up the files better but that did not > happen. I really do not want to format the drive until I can get my > files off. > > Any input or thoughts would be appreciated because most of the files > are irreplaceable. > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
