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  1. ipaulog
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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       New #11

    Sorry for the delay I have had a busy holiday period and have been unable to work on the problem.
    I take your point. So is the next action to connect the drive directly into the motherboard of the PC?
    If so I will do that later today.
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  3. Bruce1st
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    windows 7 home 64 bit
       New #12

    HI I have the same drive


    ipaulog said:
    I thought I would add that even though something is showing under disk management when I just downloaded and launched Partition Wizard it only shows the c drive. Is there anything else I can do to search for my external drive?
    HI I have the same drive. Would not work with windows 7 or windows 8.1 the drive kept shutting down. but windows 10 recognized it right away. It did change the name though. it calls it local drive and its properties are asmt 2105 usb device but in actuality its the same number as yours. no problems yet.
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