ultimate: VISTA wont read external HDs..

hi,

I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when
I connect them to the machine.. even after turning off firewall and
restarting the machine..

I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
machine read it right away, no problems..

would appreciate any suggestions...

thank you..

Try changing the jumper. Some computers only recognize Single option for the
external hard drives.
"maya" <> wrote in message
news:4852be68$...
> hi,
>
> I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I
> connect them to the machine.. even after turning off firewall and
> restarting the machine..
>
> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
> machine read it right away, no problems..
>
> would appreciate any suggestions...
>
> thank you..
>
>

Access Services wrote:
> Try changing the jumper. Some computers only recognize Single option for the
> external hard drives.
> "maya" <> wrote in message
> news:4852be68$...
>> hi,
>>
>> I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I
>> connect them to the machine.. even after turning off firewall and
>> restarting the machine..
>>
>> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
>> machine read it right away, no problems..
>>
>> would appreciate any suggestions...
>>
>> thank you..
>>
>>
>
>
thank you.. I don't know what a "jumper" is.. I asked someone at work,
he said for an external HD you purchased separately (the case w/mine)
they don't have "jumpers"... (besides, Vista was reading these fine
right after I re-installed about three weeks ago... )

thank you..

maya - for solution/recommendations you must include all pertinent info such
as "... (besides, Vista was reading these fine right after I re-installed
about three weeks ago... )...." .
Above statement impacts on the following from your original post "... have
two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I connect
them to the machine...".

Some explanation of "...right after I re-installed ..." may assist in
receiving response.

"maya" <> wrote in message
news:4852be68$...
> hi,
>
> I.. even after turning off firewall and restarting the machine..
>
> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
> machine read it right away, no problems..
>
> would appreciate any suggestions...
>
> thank you..
>
>

I have a LaCie external hard drive with a Firewire 800 connection that works
just fine but I had to install a Firewire card to connect it to.

Perhaps you need some such thing?

Norman Castel

"maya" wrote:

> Access Services wrote:
> > Try changing the jumper. Some computers only recognize Single option for the
> > external hard drives.
> > "maya" <> wrote in message
> > news:4852be68$...
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I
> >> connect them to the machine.. even after turning off firewall and
> >> restarting the machine..
> >>
> >> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
> >> machine read it right away, no problems..
> >>
> >> would appreciate any suggestions...
> >>
> >> thank you..
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> thank you.. I don't know what a "jumper" is.. I asked someone at work,
> he said for an external HD you purchased separately (the case w/mine)
> they don't have "jumpers"... (besides, Vista was reading these fine
> right after I re-installed about three weeks ago... )
>
> thank you..
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

AJR wrote:
> maya - for solution/recommendations you must include all pertinent info such
> as "... (besides, Vista was reading these fine right after I re-installed
> about three weeks ago... )...." .
> Above statement impacts on the following from your original post "... have
> two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I connect
> them to the machine...".
>
> Some explanation of "...right after I re-installed ..." may assist in
> receiving response.
>
> "maya" <> wrote in message
> news:4852be68$...
>> hi,
>>
>> I.. even after turning off firewall and restarting the machine..
>>
>> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
>> machine read it right away, no problems..
>>
>> would appreciate any suggestions...
>>
>> thank you..
>>
>>
>
>

I did a re-install of Vista about three weeks ago, that same evening I
connected the external drive to back up my data (since I hadn't been
able to do that before re-install, fortunately have two HD's built in
machine, so before doing the re-install I backed up data to 2nd drive in
machine....

last night tried again for the first time in about three weeks to
connect external drive, Vista wont read it... (again, on XP, at work,
no problems at all..)

thank you...

normviv73 wrote:
> I have a LaCie external hard drive with a Firewire 800 connection that works
> just fine but I had to install a Firewire card to connect it to.
>
> Perhaps you need some such thing?

I didn't need it three weeks ago, when Vista was reading BOTH my
external drives fine....

thank you..


>
> Norman Castel
>
> "maya" wrote:
>
>> Access Services wrote:
>>> Try changing the jumper. Some computers only recognize Single option for the
>>> external hard drives.
>>> "maya" <> wrote in message
>>> news:4852be68$...
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I
>>>> connect them to the machine.. even after turning off firewall and
>>>> restarting the machine..
>>>>
>>>> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
>>>> machine read it right away, no problems..
>>>>
>>>> would appreciate any suggestions...
>>>>
>>>> thank you..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> thank you.. I don't know what a "jumper" is.. I asked someone at work,
>> he said for an external HD you purchased separately (the case w/mine)
>> they don't have "jumpers"... (besides, Vista was reading these fine
>> right after I re-installed about three weeks ago... )
>>
>> thank you..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Maya,
How do the external drives connect, e.g., USB,Firewire,etc?

Have you checked in device manager (DevMgmt.msc) for any yellow or red icons
on the respective devices, interfaces?

Have you checked in device manager for your drivers being up-to-date?
karl

"maya" <> wrote in message
news:...
> AJR wrote:
>> maya - for solution/recommendations you must include all pertinent info
>> such as "... (besides, Vista was reading these fine right after I
>> re-installed about three weeks ago... )...." .
>> Above statement impacts on the following from your original post "...
>> have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I
>> connect them to the machine...".
>>
>> Some explanation of "...right after I re-installed ..." may assist in
>> receiving response.
>>
>> "maya" <> wrote in message
>> news:4852be68$...
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> I.. even after turning off firewall and restarting the machine..
>>>
>>> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
>>> machine read it right away, no problems..
>>>
>>> would appreciate any suggestions...
>>>
>>> thank you..
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> I did a re-install of Vista about three weeks ago, that same evening I
> connected the external drive to back up my data (since I hadn't been able
> to do that before re-install, fortunately have two HD's built in machine,
> so before doing the re-install I backed up data to 2nd drive in
> machine....
>
> last night tried again for the first time in about three weeks to connect
> external drive, Vista wont read it... (again, on XP, at work, no problems
> at all..)
>
> thank you...
>
>
>
>

do you get any messages or notifications?
a usb device was found or a usb device malfunctioned? anything?
in disk management, does the disk show, but needs you to make it active?

--
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"maya" <> wrote in message
news:4852be68$...
> hi,
>
> I have two external HD's.. Vista isn't reading either one of them when I
> connect them to the machine.. even after turning off firewall and
> restarting the machine..
>
> I brought one of them to work today, where am on XP, connected the drive
> machine read it right away, no problems..
>
> would appreciate any suggestions...
>
> thank you..
>
>