[pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start

--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Cyril Halbach <cyril.kr3y@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Cyril Halbach <cyril.kr3y@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start
To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 6:09 PM

Gerald,


John Durham wrote:
> Gerald Gollinger wrote:
>   
>> correction:  the usb cables prevent the PC from restart.  but since
there is no new drive letter on my PC it seems to be broken components.  There
is a lot of data on  the drive.  So it was formatted and partitioned.  I trash
it and dump the cables in another place.  The apartment house porters just take
this stuff away.  There is little risk that my data is exposed.  And it is just
a lot of innocuous stuff. - Gerald
>>     

>> --- On Tue, 7/15/08, John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [pchelpers] Re: USB Portable Hardrive - PC does not start
>> To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 3:54 PM
>>
>> Gerald Gollinger wrote:
>>     

>>> Hi All,
>>>  
>>> I have a Maxtor USB portable hard drive.  When the power is
connected  the
>>>       

>> driver power light is a normal green.  When the USB cable is connected
the PC
>> will  start.  Furtermore, there is no new drive letter on My Computer
that is
>> running Windows XP.
>> Has the drive been partitioned and formatted yet?
>>     

> I was just wondering if you could open the case to see if it contains a 
> normal hard drive. It might just be the USB connection that is bad. Such 
> a drive might be reinstalled again.
>   

    Do not toss the drive.  I suspect it may have something in the 
latest Windows update that may have affected USB Drives and DVD 
Writers.  No time to look into it right now but if you have a chance you 
might check out the WEB. Also am having trouble with my USB drive on the 
XP machine and the drive is definitely not bad.

Cy
   


-- 
Cyril Halbach
Williamsburg Kentucky


Cy. I  tried  my drive  on  my  Windows  Vista  notebook.  The  notebook  
stalled  too.  I  then  lost my wifi connection  but  managed  to  restore  by 
shutting  off the ethernet  modem  for  twenty  seconds. Enough  trouble  for  
one  evening.  - Gerald


      


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