cannot recognize external hard drive anymore

[Guest scottfmd]

I have been using an Iomega External Firewire hard drive for many years

without problem. Recently I had to reinstall my operating system due to a

wireless networking problem. Now that my XP is up and running again, the

computer does not recognize the drive. It comes up on the "my computer"

window as just a generic "local disk" with a drive letter, rather than the

IOMEGA HDD icon like it used to. When I right click properties, it shows the

free and used space on the drive that reflects the files I have saved on it;

however I cannot access the files by clicking on the drive. The device is

listed on the "device manager" properly as the Iomega External hard Drive.

How do I get the computer to recognize the drive like it used to? There is

no driver software required and I did not make any changes to the drive. In

fact, it was not connected while I was restoring the OS.

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: cannot recognize external hard drive anymore

 

scottfmd wrote:

> I have been using an Iomega External Firewire hard drive for many

> years without problem. Recently I had to reinstall my operating

> system due to a wireless networking problem. Now that my XP is up

> and running again, the computer does not recognize the drive. It

> comes up on the "my computer" window as just a generic "local disk"

> with a drive letter, rather than the IOMEGA HDD icon like it used

> to. When I right click properties, it shows the free and used

> space on the drive that reflects the files I have saved on it;

> however I cannot access the files by clicking on the drive. The

> device is listed on the "device manager" properly as the Iomega

> External hard Drive. How do I get the computer to recognize the

> drive like it used to? There is no driver software required and I

> did not make any changes to the drive. In fact, it was not

> connected while I was restoring the OS.

 

Which all leads to the fact that you did not install the fancy Iomega

software that originally came with thre external drive. ;-)

 

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[Guest GHalleck]

Re: cannot recognize external hard drive anymore

 

 

scottfmd wrote:

> I have been using an Iomega External Firewire hard drive for many years

> without problem. Recently I had to reinstall my operating system due to a

> wireless networking problem. Now that my XP is up and running again, the

> computer does not recognize the drive. It comes up on the "my computer"

> window as just a generic "local disk" with a drive letter, rather than the

> IOMEGA HDD icon like it used to. When I right click properties, it shows the

> free and used space on the drive that reflects the files I have saved on it;

> however I cannot access the files by clicking on the drive. The device is

> listed on the "device manager" properly as the Iomega External hard Drive.

> How do I get the computer to recognize the drive like it used to? There is

> no driver software required and I did not make any changes to the drive. In

> fact, it was not connected while I was restoring the OS.

 

For the Iomega icons, there should have been an Iomega utility cdrom

or diskette that accompanied the drive. Or there is an *.ico file on

the hard drive itself, this containing the icon for the Iomega drive.

But if the drive is functioning properly without its icon present, then

leave it alone.