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| Juke Joint Jezebel 858th Post
 
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|  "computer question -- some hard drive thing"
, posted Tue 10 Sep 17:23
(hey, my friend got this hard drive and can't get it to work. i'd appreciate any help. here's his message:)
ok i bought this external hard drive= me-320 series
and it is compliant with windows me, i have windows me
its a plug and play divice
k so the computer recognizes the hardware, and it even comes up in the task bar as remove hardware, this is a firewire HD. well th instructions say for windows me it should load itself, which it did, and it should assign itself a driver letter (ie E:)
well it hasnt, all it has is this (on the remove drive in the task bar)
IEEE 1394 Disk- Drive(:)
while my other external device (burner) says
IEEE 1394 CD-ROM- Drive(E:)
now it has assigned itself a drive
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not knowing what to do i contact the company after first looking on windows for a driver to d-load (shocker, there wasnt one)
so the company in all its vast wisdom sends an immediate response, i know i was shocked too..heres what it said=
Hi _____:
First of all, make sure your drive is partition and formated.
If this is the case and it still don't work, go to control-panel and assign drive letter manualy.
_______.
well i have no clue how to assign a drive letter manually, so i turn to the masses...
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| Radish 275th Post
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|  "Re(1):computer question -- some hard drive th"
, posted Tue 10 Sep 19:09
quote:
(hey, my friend got this hard drive and can't get it to work. i'd appreciate any help. here's his message:)
ok i bought this external hard drive= me-320 series
and it is compliant with windows me, i have windows me
its a plug and play divice
k so the computer recognizes the hardware, and it even comes up in the task bar as remove hardware, this is a firewire HD. well th instructions say for windows me it should load itself, which it did, and it should assign itself a driver letter (ie E:)
well it hasnt, all it has is this (on the remove drive in the task bar)
IEEE 1394 Disk- Drive(:)
while my other external device (burner) says
IEEE 1394 CD-ROM- Drive(E:)
now it has assigned itself a drive
-----------------------------------------------------
not knowing what to do i contact the company after first looking on windows for a driver to d-load (shocker, there wasnt one)
so the company in all its vast wisdom sends an immediate response, i know i was shocked too..heres what it said=
Hi _____:
First of all, make sure your drive is partition and formated.
If this is the case and it still don't work, go to control-panel and assign drive letter manualy.
_______.
well i have no clue how to assign a drive letter manually, so i turn to the masses...
Hmm.. If I remember correctly it's the same as in Win98. Go to the control panel, then to system. Click on the device manager tab and then click on 'disk drives.' You should see your hard drives listed. Right click on the one you want to change and click on properties. Then click on the settings tab. At the bottom it should have two pull down menus for drive letter. Change them both to the same thing.
Hope that helps.
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