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Aurora Stover
This is a very basic question, but I'm a mac-user who's not very good with
PC's, let alone Vista, so here goes:
Long story short, I'm having trouble opening (?) an external hard drive.
It's not showing up under Computer where all the drives and removable disks
are listed, allowing you to open them and store things in them. I've
verified that it's turned on, recognized by the computer, and enabled.
[If you want the backstory, here it is:
I had to take the files on my external hard drive and temporarily store them
in a PC, and I had no trouble doing that because when I connected the drive
to the PC, it showed up, and I selected "open the folder" or something like
that, and just copied and pasted the contents to the PC's internal hard
drive. But now that I'm ready to transfer them back onto my external, I
can't locate it (i.e. it's not showing up under Computer where all the drives
and removable disks are listed). I know that the computer has recognized it,
because it shows up in Device Manager. I just need to be able to open as if
you're opening a folder so that I can put stuff back in it.]
Any instructions on how I can find this drive will be greatly appreciated.
I need to leave the country in two days with these contents on my external,
so it's really important that I figure this out soon.
Thanks a lot.
PC's, let alone Vista, so here goes:
Long story short, I'm having trouble opening (?) an external hard drive.
It's not showing up under Computer where all the drives and removable disks
are listed, allowing you to open them and store things in them. I've
verified that it's turned on, recognized by the computer, and enabled.
[If you want the backstory, here it is:
I had to take the files on my external hard drive and temporarily store them
in a PC, and I had no trouble doing that because when I connected the drive
to the PC, it showed up, and I selected "open the folder" or something like
that, and just copied and pasted the contents to the PC's internal hard
drive. But now that I'm ready to transfer them back onto my external, I
can't locate it (i.e. it's not showing up under Computer where all the drives
and removable disks are listed). I know that the computer has recognized it,
because it shows up in Device Manager. I just need to be able to open as if
you're opening a folder so that I can put stuff back in it.]
Any instructions on how I can find this drive will be greatly appreciated.
I need to leave the country in two days with these contents on my external,
so it's really important that I figure this out soon.
Thanks a lot.