greenstick
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I've searched previous posts and this type of problem seems quite common, but I haven't been able to find the solution.
I've plugged an external 500Gb hard drive into my USB port. The hard drive has it's own power supply. I get a chime from the PC when I switch it on or off, and it's listed under Disk drives in Device Manager, but it doesn't show under Computer.
When I click on it in Device Manager, it tells me the device is working properly
Computer is a Compaq presario A900 running Vista. Hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar Green SATA drive.
It shows up on Device Manager as: WDC WD50 00AADS-00S9B0.
I would have attached a screen dump of Device Manager, but I couldn't work out how to to it (I pressed 'Alt' and the home/prt sc keys on the Device Manager screen and then ctrlV in this window, but nothing happened.
Any help much appreciated.
I've plugged an external 500Gb hard drive into my USB port. The hard drive has it's own power supply. I get a chime from the PC when I switch it on or off, and it's listed under Disk drives in Device Manager, but it doesn't show under Computer.
When I click on it in Device Manager, it tells me the device is working properly
Computer is a Compaq presario A900 running Vista. Hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar Green SATA drive.
It shows up on Device Manager as: WDC WD50 00AADS-00S9B0.
I would have attached a screen dump of Device Manager, but I couldn't work out how to to it (I pressed 'Alt' and the home/prt sc keys on the Device Manager screen and then ctrlV in this window, but nothing happened.
Any help much appreciated.