Hi,
A month ago i bought a brand new 250 GB 2.0 USB external hard drive (octupus link saphire case) for my Dell 8600 inspiron laptop, I've been using it as a media storage (music) and as a back up. I travel frequently and i don't take the drive with me, consequently i have to unplug it and plug it from the laptop frequently, i hadn't had any trouble...until yesterday when I plug it in...and altought there is that the laptop makes when some hardware is plugged in, and altough it appears on the safely remove hardware icon, I cannot see it in windows explorer, and in device manager it appears under the drives but i cannot manage to open the files. I tried the Filerecovery software but it did not work as it does not read the drive as plugged.
I've read a lot on your threads but, my External drive was already partitioned and working perfectly.
Any help is profoundly appreciated
Many thanks
Pablo
A month ago i bought a brand new 250 GB 2.0 USB external hard drive (octupus link saphire case) for my Dell 8600 inspiron laptop, I've been using it as a media storage (music) and as a back up. I travel frequently and i don't take the drive with me, consequently i have to unplug it and plug it from the laptop frequently, i hadn't had any trouble...until yesterday when I plug it in...and altought there is that the laptop makes when some hardware is plugged in, and altough it appears on the safely remove hardware icon, I cannot see it in windows explorer, and in device manager it appears under the drives but i cannot manage to open the files. I tried the Filerecovery software but it did not work as it does not read the drive as plugged.
I've read a lot on your threads but, my External drive was already partitioned and working perfectly.
Any help is profoundly appreciated
Many thanks
Pablo