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External drive recognition problem
Monday, April 14, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by stan
(17 messages posted)
I have a WD external hard drive with a USB connection. I stored pictures and music
that I recovered from a bad hard drive and also backup my current hard drive to it
using Sync Back. My computer has always recognized the drive as an external drive
like a SD card or USB flash thumb drive. Last week when I was downloading some pictures
from an email, I decided to download to the external drive, which did not work. My
computer now only recognizes the hard drive as a local disk and tells me that the
drive isn’t formatted when I try to access it, and would I like to format it. I have
not reformatted it, because I don’t want to lose my files. The files are still on
the disk, I checked using a recovery program. What do I need to do to get the disk
back to the previous status as an external drive and not a local one?
Thank you for your assistance
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