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External Hard drive problem: HELP

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by saint_nodi

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When i connect it to laptop with a USB cable it shows when i go to device manager and it shows as online but on the the other column with my master drive it says the disk is unallocated and gives me the option to partition it, if i do this will i lose the info on the disk?

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by osciris

I have the same problem Im also afraid to format might lose life long records of past work data and my personal pics any help would be greatly appreciated

by computercookie

If it does and you are using it, then you have a problem with the disk and or your USB.

If it doesn't try plugging it into a PC and see if it works.

Non powered USB devices have limits, also you can't put large HDD's into non powered caddies. I've been advised by my wholesaler that a good limit is 60GB, any thing above that is not likely to be able to be used universally.

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