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external hard drive not recognized by windows HELP! (don)
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:14 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike FUCK COMPUTERS.
Okay. I am on Maxtor's site and it says I must partition the hard drive of my computer to make Windows (XP) recognize this fucking external harddrive. I am not comfortable doing that. I hear that can fuck up your computer.
Is there another way? |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:29 PM Author: stirring judgmental queen of the night You have to partition your internal hard drive? That doesn't make any sense.
I have a Maxtor external and it does require drivers...isn't plug-n-play. I have the driver on all three of my systems though (1 XP Home, 2 XP Pro) and they all recognize it. I assume you already tried the install disk/downloading new drivers? |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:30 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike i dont see any install disk, or any instructions. i looked many times.
i dunno wtf. it's not refurbished or anything, brand new from best buy a few hours ago. is there somewhere else i can download these drivers? |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:31 PM Author: Glittery irate sanctuary What's the model name? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612913) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:33 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike see the link at the bottom. M01E100. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612942) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:32 PM Author: stirring judgmental queen of the night What is the model of the disk? Go to the site, software downloads, and download the driver before you plug in the hard drive (or unplug it). It'll tell you when to plug it in. That's what worked for me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612921) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:34 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike cool i'll try that. i couldnt use a disk anyway cuz this ttt laptop has no cd drive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612951) |
Date: December 19th, 2005 9:18 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike come on people! gimme a hand here please! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612800) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:31 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Pistol What kind of external hdd is it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612911) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:33 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike maxtor. this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7366691&type=product&id=1122653260185 |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:34 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Pistol If you have winxp, it should automatically recognize the drive. Is it powered on? Is it physically connected to the computer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612955) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:36 PM Author: stirring judgmental queen of the night For some reason XP and Maxtor external HDs don't play well automatically. He'll still need drivers. I ran into the same problem with mine.
I think it might have something to do with FAT32 and NTFS not allowing formating of drives over 40GB, and thus the OS starts calling for you to partition the thing into smaller drives to read/utilize it. I ran into a similar problem trying to use my 60GB iPod as an external HD
EDIT: Huh, the thing does say it's supposed to work just plugging it in (mine didn't). Download the diagnositc utility on the same page and try that |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:36 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike where are they do you know? i see none on their site. only windows 98se drivers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612970) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:36 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike powered on? i see no on/off switch on the thing.
it's USB connected yep. |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:51 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Pistol Yeah, there should be a power switch on the back. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613113) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:34 PM Author: Glittery irate sanctuary Check this out
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.8db0c3d6932ced37294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/View%20By%20Category/External%20Storage/Personal%20Storage%20Family |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:35 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike it's all windows 98se drivers. i need windows XP (professional). christ fuck maxtor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612961) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:39 PM Author: Glittery irate sanctuary Try the diagnostic utility. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612997) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:39 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike okay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612999) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:38 PM Author: nighttime nursing home xoxo told u to return and waith like 3 days for delivery for better deal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612985) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:40 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike they also said the maxtor was good. yeah, right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613006) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:42 PM Author: stirring judgmental queen of the night Yeah, for my second drive I got a Western Digital and never had any problems with it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613026) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:47 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike scrummie where are these windows XP drivers??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613081) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:58 PM Author: stirring judgmental queen of the night I had a different model. Use the diag utiliity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613174) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:38 PM Author: Adventurous Forum Pisswyrm At least you got a sweet deal on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4612987) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:40 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike well 100 bucks for 100 gig, not too bad. if it works. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613009) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:48 PM Author: Lavender temple titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613088) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:47 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike diagnostic didnt work, it just says "there is no maxtor device," even though the damn thing is plugged right into the fucking computer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613077) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:48 PM Author: Glittery irate sanctuary Are you sure the drive is on? Is the power cord plugged in? Is it actually spinning up? Can you hear it?
Try restarting your computer. |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:50 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike it doesnt seem to have a power button on it. not plugged in, maybe i'll try that. i assumed it would just work for a while. but maybe it isnt precharged.
it is making no noise at all. |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:51 PM Author: Glittery irate sanctuary It doesn't have a battery dummy. You need to plug it in! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613116) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:52 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Pistol It doesn't "pre-charge". Look at the back. There is probably a little switch that looks like [0 -] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613119) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:53 PM Author: Glittery irate sanctuary HE DIDN'T PLUG THE AC POWER IN!!! HAHAHA! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613128) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:55 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike and now it's working. and i get pwn3d again my electronics. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613149) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:57 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Pistol I had a feeling that you were the kind of guy who'd call a computer help-line bitching about how the system didn't work when you simply hadn't hit the power button. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613155) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:57 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike there really does not appear to be a button. but i plugged it in, and now all is well. :) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613163) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:56 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike answer: it was not plugged in.
please feel free to insult me now. |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:58 PM Author: Laughsome Legend Pistol I like how I called it about 30 minutes ago.
Chuck Norris' insight strikes again! |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:00 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike ahahahaa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613192) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 9:58 PM Author: Lavender temple holy shit don. just, holy shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613173) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:01 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike you'd think any guy with as much porn as me would have a clue about computers. but no. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613196) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:06 PM Author: excitant church ladyboy and you work for who? a software company? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613239) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:07 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike hahahaha yes actually. i can run their software very well cuz we were trained like crazy. but when it comes to general computer stuff, forget it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613249) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:09 PM Author: Irradiated really tough guy HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. You are not serious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613272) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:11 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike i am totally serious. i figured it was precharged or something, or that windows would at least recognize it even if it wasn't powered up, just by virtue of the usb connection. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613291) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:03 PM Author: Indecent buff address nibblets you may want to try restarting your computer, going into your cmos and setting your computer to boot off the external hard drive. If you have the bootdisk it should be able to run from that. Otherwise at the comand prompt (of the external drive) type: format X: (where X is the drive). Reboot and f-disk and partition to fat-32. reboot and go from there (look in the bootdisk dir and there should be a file like startup of setup; I can't remember what the exact command is). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613216) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:03 PM Author: Exciting citrine masturbator Idiot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613220) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:09 PM Author: Indecent buff address nibblets yes, your way makes much more sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613267) |
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Date: December 19th, 2005 10:04 PM Author: crystalline alpha preventive strike sorry dood it was that it was not plugged in. i wish you had seen what i wrote above before you typed all that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613223) |
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Date: July 21st, 2006 4:01 AM Author: Bateful dun affirmative action This cannot be for real! I have never laughed this hard in my life. All this coming from a tech guy with crazy knowlege of something as complicated as the stock market! just nuts! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#6264174) |
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Date: July 21st, 2006 4:09 AM Author: garnet factory reset button Date: December 19th, 2005 9:50 PM Author: warren buffettzini ("Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Lois, this is *not* my Batman glass.")
...not plugged in, maybe i'll try that. i assumed it would just work for a while. but maybe it isnt precharged...
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=323685&forum_id=2#4613109 )
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