Posted by M37 B1 Computer - Dell Inspiron E1505 CPU - 1.73 GHz RAM - 1.0 GB32 Bit OS Operating system - Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 installed Internal hard drive - 80 GB Hitachi HT541680 JI bought an iomega 160 GB e Go external USB-powered hard drive which is supposed to be pre-formatted and ready to go (plug-and-play). When I plug it in to a USB port the computer dings, the power light on the drive lights up and I can hear the drive running if I put it up to my ear. However, when I go to START > COMPUTER the drive doesn't show up on the list of drives. All that show is the C: drive, the D: Recovery partition of the C: drive, the DVD drive and, if I have it attached, my HP 3180 inkjet printer. If I go to START and right-click COMPUTER and then select MANAGE to get the Computer Management screen and then select Disk Management, I get the screen showing all the drives connected. This screen shows the C: drive as Disk 0 and the external iomega drive as Drive 1. It shows them both to be online. It also shows the DVD drive and the printer if I have it connected. Right-clicking the Drive 1 here and selecting Properties brings up a box labeled TOSHIBA MK1646 GSX [the iomega 2.5 drive] USB Device Properties. Under General it says This device is working properly OK - The external drive is running. The computer recognizes that the drive is there. Why doesn't the drive show up in the list under START > COMPUTER? If it doesn't show up there with a letter assigned I can't use it. Stranger yet, when the drive is connected to another Vista PC it shows up instantly. Same thing with a Windows XP machine. It just doesn't work with mine.iomega doesn't have customer support. The Geeks at Best Buy don't have a clue why it's acting this way. You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Posted by ejn63 Assuming the.
Discussion in ' PC hardware help' started by mick087, Apr 27, 2011. I have a iomega 1tb external desk top hard dive that you plug into a plug and then usb to pc. All was fine until yesterday, the Hard drive would not show up on my pc or laptop. When i switch it on the light keeps flashing don’t stay on all the time just flashing. I did move the hard drive in a bag and taker it on the bus with me and this when the problem started. Is my hard drive dead, is this game over. I took the hard drive out its silver covering and did conected the hard drive to the rest of it, and when i plugged it in the light would stay on, when i connected the hard drive back then the light would just flash again. Anyone any ideas on this? Anyway of getting the info of the hard drive and put on another hard drive? Ive lots of music edited stored on this and it would take so long to do it all again. Maybe i was wrong at the time to buy a cheap hard drive and put so much on, but you live and learn. Any help suggestions be great please. might be the hd enclosure is the problem. can connect the drive internally in your pc or get another hd enclosure. ddp said: might be the hd enclosure is the problem. can connect the drive internally in your pc or get another hd enclosure. Click to expand. I second that. Try removing the actual hard drive, and installing it directly inside your pc, or at least connect it off to the side temporarily. but connect it one way or the other to the motherboard directly of your DESKTOP pc. You should see it show up as another drive, you can then move files on/off as usual. Ass Klown said: ddp said: might be the hd enclosure is the problem. can connect the drive internally in your pc or get another hd enclosure. Click to expand. I second that. Try removing the actual hard drive, and installing it directly inside your pc, or at least connect it off to the side temporarily.
Iomega HDD model GDHDU2 External hard drive not detected by PC or Laptop, Problem turn out to be the hard drive loose fits inside its plastic case, tape.
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