In XP, the disk does not show up at all in disk management (control panel>admin tools>computer management>disk management) but it will show up on some different recovery software and WD diagnostics program.
In vista, i do not remember what it said but when i connect it now, disk management does not see it (but i can still safely remove it). The only option I had when it did show up was to initialize the disk, which it could not do because of an I/O error. On Aug 24, 10:05 am, The KwikOne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
