righty ho, will do!! these are western digital in case you wanted to know lol seriously, thanks!! trace ----- Original Message ----- From: Mobeen Iqbal To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 4:00 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: external hard drive question Hi. I sometimes find this a problem with my drives. It happens mainly with freecom drives for me. Try using a back USB port and a front one instead of say 2 on the back or 2 on the front. Hth, Mo. Spring Flower <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: hi we have twoidentical hard drives but for some reason my mum's laptop or my vaio won't recognise both at once,we can only have one plugged in at once, separately they work fine but we can't get them to work together, when both are in the computer only sees one and not both, does anyone know of a way around this one? trace