i found out my usb cord was bad !
Hello all,
I have recently purchased an enclosure and hard drive. it was working fine for a good while. i formatted the drive into a logical FAT32 drive to back up my ps3 files. i then selected to use "safely remove hardware". it said it was ok to remove. and now my PS3 nor computer recognizes it. not shown anywhere. the light comes on on the enclosure and i can hear the disks spinning but nothing. i replaced the hard drive just in case and still nothing. can anyone offer any suggestions to fix this? the I am using Vista 32 SP2.
PS. i also tested this on different ports and did not work. this port works since it recognized my external mouse.

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