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pc not seeing external hard drive

My machine is about to die on me. Went out and bought a seagate external drive. plugged in the lead and got one image of the my machine. Thought I would repeat the process some weeks later and my pc cannot see the external drive there are a couple of sockets on the front of my machine, tried both machine can't see the external drive. I am desperate to get shot of this rubbish machine just don't want it to die on me too soon. See other post on what should I buy, eventually I need to transfer stuff from the old hard drive to my new machine... any help much appreciated. Devon girl

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  • bookduck
    bookduck Posts: 1,136 Forumite
    XP?

    All other usb items working ok?

    plug in disk

    Start, Run, type diskmgmt.msc. Is the disk showing up there (the bottom half sometimes has a scroll window) if so assign a drive letter if not already assigned.
    GOOGLE it before you ask, you'll often save yourself a lot of time. ;)
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