Interrogative
March 18th 04, 09:41 PM
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> Hello helpful people,
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> I recently switched from XP Pro to XP Home (never mind, its a long
story, viruses etc. forced my to format my harddrive and start from scratch)
and now I can't get access to my external hard drive (Which is full of good
stuff, you know). The drive won't even show up on the 'My Computer' window,
let alone enable access to the drive.
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> I have a Firewire/USB 2.0 Acomdata external hard drive that reads (for
some reason) in my device manager as a SAMSUNG SP1203N IEEE 1394 SBP2. I'm
running Dell's stock network adaptor from 3Com called the 10/100 Mini PCI.
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In changing to XP Home, you don't say if it is "pre SP1" or not. If you
haven't updated it to SP1, you need to do that in order to properly take
advantage of USB2. Next, you need to install all the drivers for your
devices. Eg, my external USB2 drive requires that a driver for the cable
that connects the drive to the computer needs to be installed.
There is also an update (not critical one) as the MS update site that fixes
a problem where not all USB2 is available to a USB2 capable computer using
XP Home SP1. That patch may help you.
Lastly, I actually hit your problem on another machine yesterday. Turned out
the USB2 card I was using on that older machine had died. Switched the card
for another and all was well again instantly.
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> Hello helpful people,
>
> I recently switched from XP Pro to XP Home (never mind, its a long
story, viruses etc. forced my to format my harddrive and start from scratch)
and now I can't get access to my external hard drive (Which is full of good
stuff, you know). The drive won't even show up on the 'My Computer' window,
let alone enable access to the drive.
>
> I have a Firewire/USB 2.0 Acomdata external hard drive that reads (for
some reason) in my device manager as a SAMSUNG SP1203N IEEE 1394 SBP2. I'm
running Dell's stock network adaptor from 3Com called the 10/100 Mini PCI.
>
In changing to XP Home, you don't say if it is "pre SP1" or not. If you
haven't updated it to SP1, you need to do that in order to properly take
advantage of USB2. Next, you need to install all the drivers for your
devices. Eg, my external USB2 drive requires that a driver for the cable
that connects the drive to the computer needs to be installed.
There is also an update (not critical one) as the MS update site that fixes
a problem where not all USB2 is available to a USB2 capable computer using
XP Home SP1. That patch may help you.
Lastly, I actually hit your problem on another machine yesterday. Turned out
the USB2 card I was using on that older machine had died. Switched the card
for another and all was well again instantly.