Re: Laptop external drive help.

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:03:19 +0100, monjinique
<monjinique.2aythm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi,
I recently bought a western digital 250 GB external drive on ebay. When
I recieved it my computer detected, I think, becuase it may a ding
sound, but it didn't show up on the computer. After googling, I found I
had a USB 1.1 port not a USB 2.0 Port which WD needs. I therefore then
bought a 4 2.0 USB port card for my laptop. However, when installing to
instructions it said I needed my windows OS installation CD which my
friend's 3 yr old accidently stepped on about three months ago. I have
recently reinstalled my computer without it. So, I then found a place
to download a OpenHCI, but it is .sys and I dont know how to read it or
get my computer to read it. I know the computer detects both of the card
and drive because when I unplug either or they ding, but I cant read
them anywhere on my computer. I think I am way over my head. Can
someone help please? I thought I could do it on my own but there seems
to be a few gliches. How can I solve this?

I'd get a copy of the installation CD from somewhere. Got a friend
running the same version of Windows?

I don't regard this as piracy, you're just replacing destroyed media.
What counts is your license key, not the media itself.
.

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