Many USB drives will not work properly if connected via a USB hub - As the drives are OK on the desktop I presume that there is no real problem with the drives or their housing, and - if other devices connect to the laptop OK then the laptop software is probably OK - so that leaves the connections - If the connection and protocol is USB 2 ( I assume the drives are USB 2.0 rather than USB 1.1 ) then we are back to the quality of the USB cable and USB connections
JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Poremsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 3:02 AM Subject: Drive recovery / MBR fix via USB I have two USB drives that are not visible on the tablet - it says they need formatted. The desktop sees them just fine and I was able to access them as shared drives over the lan. (It took some 300 minutes to move 20 GB of data at 100mbit. :-() While I think if the MBR was bad, neither computer would see them, it's the only thing I can think is wrong. The tablet is winxp sp2, the desktop is win2003 - one of the beta sp's. One drive is the tablet's original drive - I decided to reformat to get rid of some crap and it wouldn't boot to install (first reboot) - it reported a drive error. The restore disk appeared to run, although I never went past the "do you want to reformat and restore" screen as I didn't want to reformat. <g> The other drive is just a spare drive in a usb case. Both have multiple partitions and have files stored on them. While I could use them remotely, I'd rather plug them into the hub the tablet is on. Figuring the error was something with the Toshiba partition and the msdn tablet pc os, I put in a spare drive and installed windows... then turned around and used the restore disk because I didn't have lan drivers. <g> So... any suggestions on what to do to get both drives visible? I used the second drive on the tablet before, so it's a new problem - possibly caused by resizing partitions using disk director, but I can't be sure. I resized them in the desktop and I have DD and True Image on the tablet too - both programs (on the tablet) see the drives but say they need initialized. -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
