Re: Vista won't reconize external hard drive
- From: "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:50:10 -0400
"Gene E. Bloch" <letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#VxWRHvOKHA.1232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 9/21/09, the entity philo wrote this:undisclosed wrote:So I just got a new computer, a HP Pavilion running Vista, and I have a
older hard drive that I want to copy data from. The hard drive came from
a system running XP. It's a older hard drive, a Seagate 80 gig IDE
connector hard drive, so I went out and bought a external hard drive
device bay -- you just put the hard drive into it and then plug it into
a USB port on my computer.
If I plug it in, all that happens is every 10 seconds I get a pop up a
message saying:
"You need to format the disk in Drive J before you can use it. Do you
want to format it?"
Of course I don't want to format it, I'd lose the data I'm trying to
copy!
If I click cancel it just keeps bugging me about it and I can't access
the HD.
HP wants $60 for a tech support call for this.
Help! How do I copy my data over?
If (as others have suggested) you make sure it's jumpered correctly
then it appears I am not the only one having a similar problem.
(I posted a similar question here and there was no solution, though I got a lot of good help)
If you cannot get Vista to read the drive
pop it back in the original machine and just network the two
and copy the data over that way
I must say that the new post gave me a sense of deja vu :-(
It's beginning to look like a Vista bug...
--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com
I had the same problem and jumpered it to CS. Thereafter, I had no problems.
--
Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
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