Posted: 7/26/2010 11:13:47 AM EDT
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1- Old ass PC running Windows XP 1- MacBook 1- Toshiba portable external HD... So I'm just trying to get all old music, documents, and pictures off the Windows POS machine... and guess what. It doesn't recognize my external HD. The device manager recognizes that it's plugged in, but it doesn't show up anywhere as an actual drive to save things to. All I want is to get my old stuff onto new(er) laptop and junk the old one... Any suggestions? |
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Right click My Computer > Manage
Go to storage & disk management on the left It will show up in the list without a drive letter. Right click it. I can't remember from here. Do something in that menu that looks like it would work. This is an EMPTY DRIVE RIGHT??? 
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Quoted: Right click My Computer > Manage Go to storage & disk management on the left It will show up in the list without a drive letter. Right click it. I can't remember from here. Do something in that menu that looks like it would work. This is an EMPTY DRIVE RIGHT??? http://i29.tinypic.com/1zxmfxv.png check the drive letter first if it is the same as a network drive letter, you need to change it right there where it shows in the picture- network drives win when there is a local drive of the same letter (yes, windows is that stupid) most likely cause in my experience |