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The external hard drive is not listed in the device manager. Any thoughts?
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That's a bad sign. You didn't tell if the drive spins, blinks, tried another cable or the acid test... works or not on another machine.
Bob
Can someone help me with this:
I have an external hard drive, which is no longer recognized by Win XP that is plugged into a UBS2.0 port. The HD is formatted and was at one time working, then I tried adding a second internal hard drive and the external drive no longer worked. I thought the problem was a conflict that devices had the same drive letter. I changed the drive letter on the second internal hard drive to no avail. Then removed the second internal hard drive so everything was set back. Still, the external hard drive is not recognized.
The external hard drive is not listed in the device manager. Any thoughts?

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