Re: installing external hard drive

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"readyforanything" <readyforanything@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:960CB285-5453-4791-9833-517CD739A614@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
have heard back from maxtor/seagate tech assist; apparently this means the
volume is corrupted and needs to be deleted. lucky me.
thanks for your help and time


"Rock" wrote:

"readyforanything" wrote

> No; but while checking out regedit I noticed that Local_Machine | > Software
> |
> Seagate Software there is an icon (ab default) that has no value set; > and
> a
> second icon ab ConfIIs4Msg of REG_SZ type that has data of "could not
> initialise COM". Maxtor is owned by Seagate. Not sure if this is
> relevant .

Sorry, I don't know.


Well at least you have cause and resolution. Sorry it wasn't better. This does say something about the advantage of having redundancy in backups using at least two different types of external media.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

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