I believe that you might be looking at another SouthBridge failure there...hopefully I'm wrong.
What happens when you plug in other USB devices? Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Friedman <[email protected]> To: robdbell <[email protected]> Cc: thinkpad <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 10:05 am Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 USB problems Yea, this is a 250 gb hard drive, should have specified. On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:10 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Is the drive over 2GB in size? Some systems have problems with those > larger drives. > > Rob > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Stuart Friedman" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] T43 USB problems > Date: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 6:58 am > > > Model is 2687-D4U,running Windows 7, 32 bit. There was an earlier problem, > perhaps two years ago, with Southbridge (?), replaced motherboard under > warranty. Now trying to backup system to external hard drive, at first > there is no recognition of the drive at all (the drive has one USB > connection and one AC connection.) > > Plug drive into power socket, it doesn't start until you also connect the > USB cable. Go to Windows explorer, no drive is found. OK, so I then > uninstall the USBs in Device Manager and reboot the machine, all the > drivers are automatically reinstalled. Now, when I plug in the external > hard drive, the OS tells me it has found a new device and is installing the > software to go along with it, so far, so good. Next it tells me it is ready > to operate and when I go to the "Safely remove and eject hardware" icon, > the drive is there. > > BUT, when I go back to Windows Explorer, no external hard drive is listed. > Oh, and the drive is found perfectly when I boot the T43 with a Ubuntu CD. > > What gives? > -- > Stuartf > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > -- Stuart Friedman 141 Upper Sunnybrook Rd. Middlesex, VT 05602 USA 802.522.6228 US 135-8047-6917 China _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
