Hi- My laptop (windows XP) refuses to recognize any external hard drives (flash drives, my 200gb external hd, ipod). All have been formatted and are working properly, as I have checked them on other computers.
I have three USB 2.0 ports which will recognize anything but a hard drive (my mouse, my printer, ect). Occasionally, when I plug in any of my external hd, a yellow question mark will appear in the device manager with the hd's name after it... but even thats not always a guarantee. And even when it does show up as a question mark, I've had no luck past that point.
I've searched around endlessly online and have tried multiple answers to seemingly similar problems, but no luck. All I can assume is my OS is missing some driver or key component.
Any advice??
any help you could offer would be GREATLY appreciated...I'm officially out of ideas..
I have three USB 2.0 ports which will recognize anything but a hard drive (my mouse, my printer, ect). Occasionally, when I plug in any of my external hd, a yellow question mark will appear in the device manager with the hd's name after it... but even thats not always a guarantee. And even when it does show up as a question mark, I've had no luck past that point.
I've searched around endlessly online and have tried multiple answers to seemingly similar problems, but no luck. All I can assume is my OS is missing some driver or key component.
Any advice??
any help you could offer would be GREATLY appreciated...I'm officially out of ideas..