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Vista reinstall problem

  • 31-07-2009 9:27am
    #1
    The Recliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭


    Good Morning people

    I know there is another Vista reinstall problem but mine is different and I didn't want to hijack someone elses thread

    Basically my hard drive died but not after giving a few warnings so I made a back up on an external hard drive

    Hard drive was under warranty so I got sent a replacement

    Reinstalled Vista on it last night and when I tried to restore the back up it couldn't find the files, looks like it isn't picking up my extrnal hard drive

    Now I don't recall having to install drivers when I bought the external drive (seagate 1TB drive) and when I put in the drivers adn utilities disc from Dell it didn't give me the option to install anything

    Any ideas, do I have to mount the external drive manually?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    You should just have to plug it in and away you go, theres no real need to install drivers for most usb drives, vista generally picks them up automatically...
    If you right click on my computer and go to manage, then go to disk management, does the external drive show up here?
    It could hopefully just be something silly like a memory card reader is nicking the drive letter that the hard drive wants to use
    Or perhaps right click on the drive in disk management, and choose set to active


  • #3
    The Recliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,630 ✭✭✭The Recliner


    tman wrote: »
    You should just have to plug it in and away you go, theres no real need to install drivers for most usb drives, vista generally picks them up automatically...
    If you right click on my computer and go to manage, then go to disk management, does the external drive show up here?
    It could hopefully just be something silly like a memory card reader is nicking the drive letter that the hard drive wants to use
    Or perhaps right click on the drive in disk management, and choose set to active

    I assumed it should just pick it up alright
    Something about setting it to active rings a bell alright, the external drive is partitioned with one partition being Fat32 and the other being NTFS, thinks that might be the problem
    The usb icon wasn't appearing the system tray though so I am not sure it was being picked up at all
    Thanks I will try that out this evening when I get home


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