Newbie Western Dig HDD issue, Wont recognize

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  1. Posts : 28,845
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    sata drive prob


    automagp68 said:
    Sorry Ken

    I edited one of the posts above after figureing out what IDE ment. They are not IDE. They are ESATA drives with USB Wester Digital 500 gig.

    ( the little black boxes from Best Buy :)
    OK esata external drives (connected via usb?) since connected via us the drives should function together. Are they both formatted the same? Is one of them a logical drive? Im just asking relevant questions.

    edit... I didnt see the post abt disk management. If you could use the sniping tool to upload a pic it would help tons

    Ken
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    zigzag3143 said:
    OK esata external drives (connected via usb?) since connected via us the drives should function together. Are they both formatted the same? Is one of them a logical drive? Im just asking relevant questions.

    Ken
    Sorry forget the Esata part. Lets just call them External MINI USB drives. They are both formated the same Fat 32.
    No they are not logical drives. Neither have been partitioned which is what im assumeing your asking. Thanks again for trying to help me reason this all out
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       #13

    Here is quick update for you guys. I cant even get the HDD to show up in disk managment for some reason. Only whatever one is plugged in first will show up. Very odd
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       #14

    No thought hu guys?
    Hmm
    Is very odd
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  5. Posts : 1,557
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    Yea, I'm stumped. It definitely seems like a hardware conflict. Maybe it's related to the USB driver in Windows 7 (since XP does work).
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    HDD


    automagp68 said:
    No thought hu guys?
    Hmm
    Is very odd
    hey sorry

    formatted to fat32? why? im not sure but i will have to check fat32 limitations.

    dont worry we will worry this fixed soon I hope

    Ken
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    Thanks for any additional help guys i appreciate it
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    Ok here is what i wanted to show you

    I think its a naming conflict.

    Althought the drives are lettered diff and also now named apples and bananas for some reason 7 still sees them named as my book and i dont think it can figure out which is which. Which would also be why it isnt company up in disk managment right?

    Im asking of course lol

    P.S The worldbook is just my NAS device on my network
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  9. Posts : 28,845
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       #19

    HD issue


    automagp68 said:
    Ok here is what i wanted to show you

    I think its a naming conflict.

    Althought the drives are lettered diff and also now named apples and bananas for some reason 7 still sees them named as my book and i dont think it can figure out which is which. Which would also be why it isnt company up in disk managment right?

    Im asking of course lol

    P.S The worldbook is just my NAS device on my network
    Thats it. where did you change the drive names and how?
    K
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  10. Posts : 1,557
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    and have you tried rebooting since you renamed them?
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