pete
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Post by pete on Aug 12, 2014 19:43:19 GMT
You can add Your external drive may be kernackered. I have just had exactly this message come up and the drive itself has most definitely had it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 21:00:53 GMT
I get that Jack, very occasionally and intermittently, with one of my external HDDs connected via USB3.
If I disconnect the USB lead, then reconnect it, the PC then recognises the drive and all is well. It might go a few weeks before it does it again, so I've never investigated further. Should I ?
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Post by kings3 on Aug 13, 2015 10:49:37 GMT
I get this every now and again with only USB 3, mainly my external media reader ( kingston) & one of my 2 external hard drives, which the one in question is USB3. Un-plugging it and attaching it again usually quick fixes it, but it will somewhere down the line do it again. A number of things could go wrong with external hard drives, but you would hear it before it went wrong or it would not show up most of the time and no way to fix it. I simply do not like the default action for a hard drive to go to sleep when not in use. Drivers are another thing, when you clean install windows, windows looks for drivers to get you up and running, that means vga driver/lan driver/usb drivers etc... But you have a desktop and have downloaded the up to date mobo drivers from their website, which would be better for you, and install them before microsoft offer these drivers, it would be an ideal world. Less buggy. Thats what I liked about XP, you could not get online until you put in the lan driver, which gave you the time before microsoft looking to give you drivers. But since windows 7, that is not the case. I mean can you imagine how many drivers you have on your system over the years.
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