USB External Hard Drive Not Detected

[Trent_australia]

Hi,

Now I have tried all sorts of things. I have a Seagate Freeagent Desktop USB
drive, It has been working fine I plug it in when I need it no problem the
drive comes up. Now when I plug it in windows vista does not even find it. No
new usb device nothing. I have been through everything in vista, device
manager, drive manager, everything. So I tried it on my laptop also running
vista, not a problem found the drive and loaded. So i went back to my tower
and nothing. Can someone tell me what is wrong? I only have 1 other usb
device plug in, and that is my wireless keyboard and mouse. I have tried all
the usb ports also. I am using Vista Home Premium, the machine is brand new
(only a week old) so i haven't even changed any default setting or installed
anything. Can someone help me?????

Thanks

Trent

 

[Trent_australia]

:
Hi,

Now I have tried all sorts of things. I have a Seagate Freeagent Desktop USB
drive, It has been working fine I plug it in when I need it no problem the
drive comes up. Now when I plug it in windows vista does not even find it. No
new usb device, nothing. I have been through everything in vista, device
manager, drive manager, everything. So I tried it on my laptop also running
vista, not a problem found the drive and loaded. So i went back to my tower
and nothing. Can someone tell me what is wrong? I only have 1 other usb
device pluged in, and that is my wireless keyboard and mouse. I have tried
all
the usb ports also. I am using Vista Home Premium, the machine is brand new
(only a week old) so i haven't even changed any default setting or installed
anything. Can someone help me?????

Thanks
Trent

UPDATE -
I thought of some more information which may help solve my issue. When I
first got my new machine the drive worked fine. After a couple of days when I
would plug the drive in, nothing would come up. Now a friend of mine brought
his USB HDD over (different brand) and it worked fine. plugged it in, Vista
detected it no drama. WHAT IS WRONG???????

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Have you resolved the problem with the Seagate FreeAgent USB external
drives being recognized by Vista?
I have exactly the same problem.

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