Shadthelad
Technical User
- Jun 25, 2008
- 5
Who can give a hand to a naive user?
I have had a WD external hard drive for a couple of years, using it with a laptop running XP with no problems. I recently got another laptop, running Vista, and used the WD device to transfer some photos and music files to the Vista machine. All went well, and afterwards, I continued to use the device with the XP machine with no change in performance.
Yesterday, though, I attached the USB device to the XP machine and it was not recognized. To see whether the problem was with the device, I attached it to the Vista machine. Lo and behold, the Vista machine DID recognize the device.
I tried downloading the drivers for the device to the XP machine, just in case they had become corrupted: No go.
So now I have a storage device that seems to work fine, but it isn't recognized by one of my two computers. Any ideas?
I have had a WD external hard drive for a couple of years, using it with a laptop running XP with no problems. I recently got another laptop, running Vista, and used the WD device to transfer some photos and music files to the Vista machine. All went well, and afterwards, I continued to use the device with the XP machine with no change in performance.
Yesterday, though, I attached the USB device to the XP machine and it was not recognized. To see whether the problem was with the device, I attached it to the Vista machine. Lo and behold, the Vista machine DID recognize the device.
I tried downloading the drivers for the device to the XP machine, just in case they had become corrupted: No go.
So now I have a storage device that seems to work fine, but it isn't recognized by one of my two computers. Any ideas?