External HD

I am running Vista Home Basic. Recently I installed a new internal drive as
the master, and kept the original partitioned one as a slave. Since then, of
two external usb drives I have, one shows and works ok, but the computer
will not show the other one. If I connect this drive to any other computer,
it is recognised and works ok. Prior to installing the internal drive, it
worked alright.

Help needed please.

Brian

Brian;1086440 Wrote:
> I am running Vista Home Basic. Recently I installed a new internal drive
> as
> the master, and kept the original partitioned one as a slave. Since
> then, of
> two external usb drives I have, one shows and works ok, but the
> computer
> will not show the other one. If I connect this drive to any other
> computer,
> it is recognised and works ok. Prior to installing the internal drive,
> it
> worked alright.
>
> Help needed please.
>
> Brian


Did you check in Disk Management whether it shows up there? If yes, how
is it defined - e.g. Healthy (active, primary partion) or whatever.


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whs

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:03:43 +0100, Brian wrote:

> I am running Vista Home Basic. Recently I installed a new internal drive as
> the master, and kept the original partitioned one as a slave. Since then, of
> two external usb drives I have, one shows and works ok, but the computer
> will not show the other one. If I connect this drive to any other computer,
> it is recognised and works ok. Prior to installing the internal drive, it
> worked alright.
>
> Help needed please.
>
> Brian

You probably have two drives set up with the same letter (or with no letter
on the bad one).

Plug in only the invisible one and use disk management to assign it a new
letter.

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Thanks for the reply. It didn't show a drive letter at all, so I allocated
it one and formated and it's ok now. Thanks again

"Brian" <> wrote in message
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>I am running Vista Home Basic. Recently I installed a new internal drive
>as the master, and kept the original partitioned one as a slave. Since
>then, of two external usb drives I have, one shows and works ok, but the
>computer will not show the other one. If I connect this drive to any other
>computer, it is recognised and works ok. Prior to installing the internal
>drive, it worked alright.
>
> Help needed please.
>
> Brian