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Blast · 11-15-2008, 09:28 PM

I connect my external hard-drive. No matter what computer. This sorta happened outa the blue. I had it connected to another computer and forgot it on for maybe 10 hours. It was properly ventilated. I shut it off, and connected it to my laptop and it said new hardware found. 24. Literally just a 24. I have done this on multiple computers and they all say the same. I thought it may be my computer at first but none of them read it. It was a 250 gig and probably had 15-20% space left.

Any ideas?

Good ol computer problems. I just found out that i can't read cd/dvd's. I know they are there (ones with media on them) but appear blank.

And...if they are blank i can see them there in My Computer but i can't burn anything to them.

OK...just tried something. I can burn CD's with normal windows XP burner but its wierd...i burn it and it says it aint there if i put it in again.

Gar...i deleted the upper/lower filters and to no avail.

My CD/DVD drive is:

D:\ PBDS DVD+-RW DS-8W1P

and then microsoft (i found the HDD problem, but the resolution doesn't work)

11-15-2008, 09:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Blast Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: North Dakota Posts: 284 OS: Windows XP SP3 My System	I connect my external hard-drive. No matter what computer. This sorta happened outa the blue. I had it connected to another computer and forgot it on for maybe 10 hours. It was properly ventilated. I shut it off, and connected it to my laptop and it said new hardware found. 24. Literally just a 24. I have done this on multiple computers and they all say the same. I thought it may be my computer at first but none of them read it. It was a 250 gig and probably had 15-20% space left. Any ideas? Good ol computer problems. I just found out that i can't read cd/dvd's. I know they are there (ones with media on them) but appear blank. And...if they are blank i can see them there in My Computer but i can't burn anything to them. OK...just tried something. I can burn CD's with normal windows XP burner but its wierd...i burn it and it says it aint there if i put it in again. Gar...i deleted the upper/lower filters and to no avail. My CD/DVD drive is: D:\ PBDS DVD+-RW DS-8W1P and then microsoft (i found the HDD problem, but the resolution doesn't work) Last edited by dai; 11-18-2008 at 07:48 PM.