All seems to be sorted now - just sorted itself out it seems - have bought new external harddisk and backed all up so here's hoping that doesn't balls up!
Cheers for the help anyhow.
Hi Old Hippie - checked that thread before I started this one and followed it as best I could (ie. up to the point where people start mentioning taking casings off!) and there doesn't appear to be any problem - just that it states that no drivers are installed for the device.
I should point...
Isn't it always the way - you finally get everything onto one drive where you want it and the drive goes and becomes unrecognisable to your computer.... something about the USB device malfunctioning :mad:
The diagnosis says that it requires a driver so somethings gone wrong as it's a plug and...