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Re: Vista won't recognize External Hard Drive

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by riscy, Jun 20, 2009.

  1. riscy

    riscy Guest

    Previous PC with Vista has no problem with this external drive until I
    move to other PC and it regonise it but does not show up in My Computer.


    However I fixed this by assigning drive "A".

    I don't know why, it is FAT32, not NTFS (Vista).

    Good luck.

    Riscy


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    riscy, Jun 20, 2009
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  3. Gene E. Bloch

    Gene E. Bloch Guest

    On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:29:43 +0100, riscy wrote:
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    > Previous PC with Vista has no problem with this external drive until I
    > move to other PC and it regonise it but does not show up in My Computer.
    >
    >
    > However I fixed this by assigning drive "A".
    >
    > I don't know why, it is FAT32, not NTFS (Vista).
    >
    > Good luck.
    >
    > Riscy<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    FAT32 and NTFS are file systems, and can be used by different operating
    systems. It has nothing to do with Vista in a direct sense.

    Do not assign the letters A: and B: to external drives unless they are
    floppy drives. Also don't use any preexisting letters such as C: - that
    would be bad too.


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    Gene E. Bloch, Jun 22, 2009
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