My boss was trying to transfer something to my computer with the USB drive and it froze up, so after trying to end the process we just unplugged it and restarted my computer. Now neither of our computers recognize the drive, they keep popping up "found new hardware" wizards but dont recognize the drive. whats the deal?!
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External USB Harddrive just stopped working!!!
- Thread starter darkecho
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darkecho said:My boss was trying to transfer something to my computer with the USB drive and it froze up, so after trying to end the process we just unplugged it and restarted my computer. Now neither of our computers recognize the drive, they keep popping up "found new hardware" wizards but dont recognize the drive. whats the deal?!
Sounds to me like it is toast. I had this happen with a Maxtor One Touch and I ended up taking out the drive and hooking it up manually to the IDE controller on my Mobo. It would then actually recognize the drive, but wouldn't format all the way.