Hi Jo, Did the computer assign a letter to the external drive? For example, My Book F. If it did do this, then the computer does recognise the drive. When you open a new external drive, they are usually shipped from the factory with software, like programs to auto backup files and stuff like that. I've actually copied those files off of the external drive and kept them in a folder on my C drive so I could look at them later. Anyway I'm off track... Ask him if the computer does see the external drive. If so, while sitting on the My Book, hit the alt key and bring up the file menue, and arrow down to Format. It will want to do a full erase on it. This can take a couple hours to complete. But once it's done, he will have a clean hard drive that's ready to use. Hope this helped. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "jo luland" <jolul...@verizon.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] problem with "my book" external hard drive
Hi, I know many of you have purchased the Western Digital external hard drive because I remember a conversation regarding this topic. I've had one for several years and have been using it with no problems. I gave one to my son for Christmas and he just can't seem to get the computer to recognize the device. Every time he enters on the drive, he is presented with a list of I guess they are programs such as: autorun.bat. Does anyone have any suggestions so I can help him? He is not a member of this list, but I think he'll probably join before long. Thanks in advance for any help. Jo Luland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holger Fiallo" <fia...@ameritech.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:36 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] starting pc and hard drive only files. I have another hard drive and it did not do that. Kind Regard Holger Fiallo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate" <shamaniclivin1...@hotmail.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:23 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] starting pc and hard drive I just ran into the same problem this weekend. It happened after installing jaws 9 thumb drive version onto the external hard drive and then trying to boot up the computer with the drive inserted. Is there anything in particular that you have recently put on your external drive? Perhaps it's interfering with the start-up. I can't say much beyond that, though as I didn't ever exactly figure out what happened with my problem either. Kate > From: fia...@ameritech.net > To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:06:02 -0600 > Subject: [JAWS-Users] starting pc and hard drive > > Hi, all > I have the following problem. My new external hard drive is not letting me > start my PC, when I want. I have to disconnect it before I re-star it or > will not do anything. 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