the actual harddrive didn't work on other computers my friend told me that i hve to manually start it up and reformat the disk and install the drivers for it so that's where i'm at right now ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] external harddrive question
> Is it being picked up in the device manager? > > You may want to go into the device manager and check under the USB > controllers if there's a mass storage device being picked up. > > If that's the case, then you will want to uninstall all of the USB devices > listed there, restart your computer, and let Windows recreate the USB > devices plugged into the computer. > > You haven't said whether you've tried plugging in the drive on another > port, > so my fix above is in case you have tried plugging it into another port, > and > you had the same results. > > Like I said, this is the fix for a problem such as yours. > > Also, you never mentioned whether you've managed to connect this device to > your computer in the past and whether it's been working fine at that > point. > > Let us know some more information and we'll try to help if possible. > > > Victor > Co-moderator > Blind Movie Buffs List > Guidedogs List > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following address in order to contact the management team > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
