Recent content by anais4uk

Ah at last I found what has been causing all the errors etc......I have messed around with it all day racking my brain.....and then....I moved the usb wire which connects the HDD to the usb port and it seems to have a loose connection at the HDD end. The slightest move triggers it off. So looks...

When I first got this HDD in 2005 it had it worked ok until one day I could not access any of my files. I did a full format and took away the casing only to find a loose wire. Once it was fixed everything worked great....then I put the HDD away and have not used it for quite some time, when I...

Just a quick update.........things are looking down again. This morning logged onto my computer and the same things are happening again. The external drive is not listed in 'My Computer' again!! Still it is in Device manager so again I try to uninstall it but device manager has stopped...

You are a genius.....thank you so much it appears to have worked I have now got access to the files too. I will see if it still works tomorrow and will update this thread later. Thank you once again your help is much appreciated. :D

I thought I would try one last thing before logging off. I uninstalled the external drive from device manager then reinstalled it. It has now decided to at last show up in 'My Computer' but it won't let me access it. I am getting the error 'I:\ is not accessible, Access is denied. Does this...

Before I leave for the night.....just wanted to mention that I have noticed that when I turn the external drive on there is USB sound (which indicates it has found the drive) then after a couple of seconds the sound repeats as if I have disconnected the drive.....have you any idea why this is...

Yes I will have to do that tomorrow as it is getting quite late I will update this thread with my findings tomorrow some time.....many thanks for your help and for being patient with me. Best wishes Anais

I have connected to a different port....still nothing. There is no disconnection of power to the external enclosure. Also went into computer management and done rescan disks...it appears to be accessing the external drive because the red light keeps coming on as if it is being read....but...

In Disk management I cannot see my HDD there..............nothing at right hand side bottom of disk management either... Yes I could just open up the case and hook the HDD into the desktop machine but that would take some time and I thought there may be an easier way around it. Thanks for...

Yes I plugged my digital camera into the same port and that worked fine although it did use a different cable. The cable I am using for the external drive on inspection looks fine, I will have to purchase another cable to test whether or not it is faulty.

Sorry I was just following the above advice :) When I connect my HDD to computer there is USB sound, it shows up in Device Manager, but cannot find it anywhere else. I am using HDD in external casing.

Sorry but I am quite a novice with technical side of things.......I could not see external devices in my BIOS only Primary master........primary slave........secondary master..........secondary slave. Am I missing something? or maybe I was not in the right place?

I have just gone into BIOS and Primary master shows my internal hard drive, Primary slave shows [none]. I went into primary slave > Auto detection > pressed enter > still nothing :(

Thank you for you fast response NeloForster. I have just connected my digital camera on the same usb and that was recognized. How would I check for it in my BIOS? I am running windows XP. Many thanks

Hello came across this forum whilst searching for answers on the net. Hope someone out there can help me out here as I haven't a clue what to do next. Heres my problem: I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200 GB External Hard Drive which has been working fine until yesterday when all of a sudden...