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After successfully getting the My Book to connect as drive letter K:, I changed this with the disk management to be Y: instead, this being far along enough in the alphabet to not be taken up accidentally by Windows for any other device. And now my My Book starts up with my computer ok. So...

Heh heh, yes! A little experimentation, a little help from people throughout the world with these forums, etc. And I get there little by little. I have solved a lot of problems this way. Have a Merry Christmas and a good New Year! And thanks for the help and support! Steve, Denmark

Hi again, ok, I have it working now again. Please someone explain this to me before I turn off my computer! This is what I did: Thinking I should maybe force windows to use a completely different drive letter, I made windows take up the next few available drive letters with subst I...

I won't discount the possibility of a hardware problem in either the My Book or on my motherboard. It is just that in looking at some other things on the net, it sounds like my problem is Windows software related. It sounds like the issue of drive letter assignments is a big problem. I found...

Hi Old Hippie, thanks for the reply! No, it is not! Everything looks again like I posted above. The entry for USB Mass Storage Device is not present, and apparently only appears when the My Book is connected. There is under "Other Devices" a USB entry, with a yellow error icon, and this...

I thought my problem was solved but apparently not. As I said, yesterday I plugged in the My Book and it was recognized and connected with no problems. Then when I rebooted the computer this morning, the same problem happens, it just asks me to find a driver if I click on the USB icon that...

Ok, problem apparently solved. And what did I do? Not much, at least not that I am aware of. After realizing that I could not connect the My Book due to lack of driver, and needing more hardisk space, I put in one of my older internal hardisks as a secondary. Windows placed this one-partition...

I just made an interesting and irritating observation. Since my USB drivers are all Intel, I assume I need the Intel USB2 driver for my PC. So I have been searching the net for a download and all the download links redirect me to Windows Update. But Windows Update does not suggest or find a...

Thanks for the link, Old Hippie! According to my device manager here are the listings under the USB: Intel PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM Universal Host Controller - 24C2 Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM Universal Host Controller - 24C4 Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM Universal Host...

Can anyone help here? I have an Asus P4PE motherboard running Windows 2000 and currently with a pair of parallel ATA hardisks. My first question: there are two SATA hardisk connectors on the motherboard, but all my documents for this hardisk indicate that SATA can be used only in a Raid 0...

My system is an Asus P4PE motherboard running Windows 2000. I have been using as second hardisk and external WD My Book 250 GB premium, connected to the computer via a USB port. I have had no problems with this, the hardisk was recognized automatically on computer boot up (or if I did not have...