[nfbcs] External disk drive

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

I would start to get suspicious that something is defective.  Have you tried this drive on another computer, and have you tried other cables?  As far as I know, most 
drives come formatted and usually contain some documentation and sometimes some demo programs.  Do you hear or feel the drive spinning up when you connect 
it?  If you know the name of the drive, you might try Google to see if anything turns up, but it almost sounds as though there is a hardware problem of some kind.

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:34:40 -0400 (EDT), Tracy Carcione wrote:

>Nope, no joy there.
>If the external disc was not formatted, would that cause it not to be
>displayed?
>When I try to look at Properties, it tells me the device is working
>properly, but it doesn't show me any info like bytes used and bytes free,
>or the disc format.
>The only place I can see the drive is under Device Manager, and Format is
>not one of the options.
>Tracy

>> Have you tried first changing the USB port? Sometimes that will work.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:51 AM
>> Subject: [nfbcs] External disk drive
>>
>>
>>> Hi guys.  I am having a problem, and I'm not sure what to do.  I have an
>>> external disc drive with a USB connection.  When I turn it on, the
>>> computer makes the USB on sound, but I don't see the drive under My
>>> Computer.  When I go to System/Device Manager/Disc Drives, I see it, but
>>> the Properties button is unavailable.  I tried the Populate button under
>>> Volumes, but it didn't seem to do much.
>>> I think perhaps I need to start over from scratch and re-add the drive,
>>> but I don't know how to take it off first.  A friend says I can re-scan
>>> for hardware, but I don't see where to do that.
>>> Any ideas for how I can get this drive to show up under My Computer?  I
>>> am
>>> running Windows XP Pro.
>>> Thanks.
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
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