Guest guest Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 In Windows, removable drives can end up getting different drive letters assigned to them, particularly if the machine is rebooted when a drive is disconnected. So I wonder if the drive letter that was assigned to your removable drive is now pointing to a different drive, and your backup program was pointing to that drive letter. You many need to re-map drive letters, or have your backup program go to a different drive letter. Can you see your external drive under a different letter? > > My computer is not recognizing my external hard drive so I c back up. . I've restarted my computer to try to make it acknowledge that I plugged in using the USB port. , Somehow backed up to D drive and look pretty low on memory there. A volunteer had set this up for me and isn't available.. Advice please? Was there a disc I must reload to make it recognize the other hard drive? Thanks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Fixed now but not sure what turning the power off and on 3 times did. Reset it somehow. Thanks. Subject: Re: back up troublesTo: Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:10 PM In Windows, removable drives can end up getting different drive letters assigned to them, particularly if the machine is rebooted when a drive is disconnected. So I wonder if the drive letter that was assigned to your removable drive is now pointing to a different drive, and your backup program was pointing to that drive letter. You many need to re-map drive letters, or have your backup program go to a different drive letter. Can you see your external drive under a different letter?>> My computer is not recognizing my external hard drive so I c back up. . I've restarted my computer to try to make it acknowledge that I plugged in using the USB port. , Somehow backed up to D drive and look pretty low on memory there. A volunteer had set this up for me and isn't available.. Advice please? Was there a disc I must reload to make it recognize the other hard drive? Thanks.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Sometimes that happens to my hard drive, I power cycle both computers and hard drive and try having the hard drive plugged in and on before the computer starts up, and then it finds it.When in doubt, just restart a lot sounds like a good strategyLynnTo: From: myriaemeny@...Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:26:53 -0700Subject: Re: Re: back up troubles Fixed now but not sure what turning the power off and on 3 times did. Reset it somehow. Thanks. From: Haresch <newfloc>Subject: Re: back up troublesTo: Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:10 PM In Windows, removable drives can end up getting different drive letters assigned to them, particularly if the machine is rebooted when a drive is disconnected. So I wonder if the drive letter that was assigned to your removable drive is now pointing to a different drive, and your backup program was pointing to that drive letter. You many need to re-map drive letters, or have your backup program go to a different drive letter. Can you see your external drive under a different letter?>> My computer is not recognizing my external hard drive so I c back up. . I've restarted my computer to try to make it acknowledge that I plugged in using the USB port. , Somehow backed up to D drive and look pretty low on memory there. A volunteer had set this up for me and isn't available.. Advice please? Was there a disc I must reload to make it recognize the other hard drive? Thanks.> NEW mobile Hotmail. Optimized for YOUR phone. Click here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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