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by rjcoyle

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USB External HD no longer being detected
I went to do a backup to my Maxtor external HD via Windows XP B/U utility and find that my machine will no longer detect it as it had in the past. I have tried different USB slots and consistently get 3 beeps in my speaker when I plug in the drive and it does not appear in My Computer screen. Things I have tried are as follows:

1. I tried this external drive in another computer and it works fine.

2. I also tried other flash drives in the same usb slots and all worked well.

3. I also checked the bios boot sequence and reentered the boot sequence to what it was (removeable, cdrom, hd) and rebooted the machine with and without the external drive attached. The removeable boot device is a floppy drive.

Thank you,
Ryan

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by dumphrey

check the show hidden devices from the view menu.

But before I go on, does the usb disk work on another computer? Do other USB devices work on your computer?

Expand the USB driver section, remove all references to unknown device and or your hard drive. Next, expand the hard disk catagory, and check for and remove any listing there for your hard disk, remove them. Reboot, and then try to mount your disk again.

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