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peter_the_piper
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I recently bought an external hard drive, formatted it and backed up the computer to it. Used Partition Manager to add extra pattitions to it. PM hung at 9% and computer had to be rebooted. When I did this XP could not see the drive at all, the safely remove icon comes up. When used the drive is removed, reconnecting does make no difference. Uninstalled/reinstalled drive through device manager but no good. Tried another external drive which windows finds OK. Question is is it the drive thats faulty causing the hangup or has the program caused the fault?
I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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Try connecting the USB Drive again, then
Right click on "My Computer"->Manage->Disk Management
Repartition and reformat from there.0 -
Thanks for the info, would never have thought of this solution. Am formatting now. Will sort out partitions later.
Thanks and a Happy New Year
peterI'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
Thanks for the info, would never have thought of this solution. Am formatting now. Will sort out partitions later.
Thanks and a Happy New Year
peterI'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
Thanks for the info, would never have thought of this solution. Am formatting now. Will sort out partitions later.
Thanks and a Happy New Year
peterI'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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