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Old 09-23-2008, 09:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Thumbs Up Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up

Acomdata 500 Gb External Harddrive Was Working Fine Im Running Windows Xp Notw It Is Not Showing Up When I Have It Plugged In I Have Over 175 Gigs Of Music On This Thing Not To Mention 200 Gigs Of Movies Can Someone Please Help Me
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Old 09-24-2008, 02:33 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up

is it listed in disk management
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Old 09-26-2008, 01:40 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up

it shows up in the disk manager when i take it out of the casing but it shows up with no volume like it is empty & there is a black sutty substance on the case but not on the harddrive it shows up when hoomkked directly to the computer
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Old 09-27-2008, 12:33 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Hard Drive Is Not Showing Up

it sounds like the case has shorted out
with it hooked up to the computer directly see if this see's anything
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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