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Windows registry edit to recognise external drive?

  • 28-02-2007 10:10am
    #1
    Trevord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭


    My Western digital external drive is not being recognised in Windows. (It appears as an unknown USB device in Device Manager).

    The drive is fine (checked it on other machines). I'd reinstall the driver if it were available (its plug and play and an online search for drivers yielded nothing). Also the USB ports are operating fine.

    I'm thinking at this stage that its a windows (XP SP2 ) registry issue but I've little knowledge of how to do registry edits. I've read eslewhere that by deleting upper and lower filters you can resolve a problem with CD rom or DVD/RW drives that are not recognised.

    Could a registry edit fix the issue with an external drive also? and if so any tips I where I might find guidance in how to do this would be appreciated.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    whoa ..

    regedit is a last resort used only when you are quite prepared to install windows again from scratch. note how I didn't say reinstall, because if you screw up a vital setting in the registry you can inherit the problem no matter how many times you reinstall over the top. That risk is low, but the consequences are drastic.

    check the manufacturers web site for drivers, does the device have an FCC ID ?

    remove other USB devices , especially card readers that may hog drive letters

    take a system restore snapshot

    If your CD rom is D: then pop in the windows CD and open a command prompt and type d:\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons as it gives another chance to recover.


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