I have a bunch of external hard drives. Seven of them. That’s no problem, per se, but when my laptops (only 3 of those) won’t recognize a couple of them, I have a problem I can’t figure out.
Why the same two drives? A WD “MyBook” and a homemade 2.5″ drive I made from an “enclosure” — both of which worked perfectly until a few days ago. And the 2.5″ will show up on my desktop PC, and on my neighbor’s PCs… but not on either of my laptops.
Furthermore, when either of these “bad” drives is plugged in, my laptops won’t shut down properly (they just hang there), nor will they boot up if I plug the hard drives in before powering on. They start to boot, but just hang.
This is maddening! What’s suddenly going on? Any help will be most appreciated. And: not only what is going on, but What can I do?
I’m using Vista on one laptop and XP Pro on the other two, by the way.
Help!
Inky960
