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Freecom Ext. HD
Hi everyone and a happy new year to you all. I am new to this forum and wish to ask a question if i may.
My wife bought me an HP desktop, the one in PC world with the 1 TB hard drive. Well i am pleased with it. What I am not happy about is that my Freecom external harddrive will not work with it.
The drive was bought 4 years ago and runs on XP ok. I loaded up the drivers from the disc but after i pluged the drive in (usb) it stopped all my usb ports working. I had to switch off with the power button on the computer and start up again but the usb ports were still not working.
To cut the story short I took the system back using the restore function in safe mode. I have looked for drivers on the net and Freecom's web site with no joy.
I was wondering if anyone has any good sujestions other than give the drive away and get another.
The thing is i have a lot of family stuff on it. They are all backed up onto discs but i would like to use the drive.
thanks for any advice you can give me.