Zirotek
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Hey everyone,
So I've currently moved houses but before I did I used to live with 3 mates and my computer (running windows 7) was constantly on acting as the houses media server using TVersity to access and share all my movies and music via my external WD 1TB USB 2.0 hard drive..
This had been the case for the last year and during this time I have not had any problems with it... At times the movies lagged but seeing as they were going from the external HDD through my computer over the network and played on other PC's / laptops/ ps3's I put it down to the network load slowing them down and making them choppy as well as the dual core processor that I had in my computer not being able to keep up with the data requests
As I said I have moved in to a new house and still obtain all my gear (PC, netgear router, WD 1TB external HDD) but after the initial set up of all my stuff I can no longer find my external harddrive on my computer...
*It doesnt come up in My Computer
*It doesnt come up in Device manager
*It doesnt come up in Disc manager
Here's where it get's a bit weird though. After I plugged it into my PC and connected to the internet (which I had at my old place too) it downloaded " Initio combo device class " driver software for the HDD which I never needed before. After downloading the drivers there was no difference to my problem, it still does not appear in My Comp / Device manager / Disc Manager. Under the USB Controllers tab in Device manager it does recognise a Mass Storage Device though.
When plugging/unplugging the external HDD to the PC/laptop (laptop also runs Win7) through the USB connections (i did try multiple USB ports on both the PC/Laptop too make sure that wasnt the problem), it makes the windows sounds that are used for detecting the addition or removal of a external device so both PC and laptop are detecting that it is there, it's just not showing up anywhere.
I'm very careful with my equiptmaent to so its not as if I've dropped it or anything like that.... but when I moved it just stopped working for some reason. I've been looking all over for answers to this and just can't find anything relevant to my search. I a,m also using all the original cabeling that I had set up at my old house too.
I'll be interested to see if anyone can help me with this because the only thing I can come up with is that it's died along the way from my old house to the new one but seeing as I cant access anything on it Im not sure if its because theres no data being accessed which is the reason it is so quiet. Blue power light is on and solid at the back aswell.
Thoughts ? ...
So I've currently moved houses but before I did I used to live with 3 mates and my computer (running windows 7) was constantly on acting as the houses media server using TVersity to access and share all my movies and music via my external WD 1TB USB 2.0 hard drive..
This had been the case for the last year and during this time I have not had any problems with it... At times the movies lagged but seeing as they were going from the external HDD through my computer over the network and played on other PC's / laptops/ ps3's I put it down to the network load slowing them down and making them choppy as well as the dual core processor that I had in my computer not being able to keep up with the data requests
As I said I have moved in to a new house and still obtain all my gear (PC, netgear router, WD 1TB external HDD) but after the initial set up of all my stuff I can no longer find my external harddrive on my computer...
*It doesnt come up in My Computer
*It doesnt come up in Device manager
*It doesnt come up in Disc manager
Here's where it get's a bit weird though. After I plugged it into my PC and connected to the internet (which I had at my old place too) it downloaded " Initio combo device class " driver software for the HDD which I never needed before. After downloading the drivers there was no difference to my problem, it still does not appear in My Comp / Device manager / Disc Manager. Under the USB Controllers tab in Device manager it does recognise a Mass Storage Device though.
When plugging/unplugging the external HDD to the PC/laptop (laptop also runs Win7) through the USB connections (i did try multiple USB ports on both the PC/Laptop too make sure that wasnt the problem), it makes the windows sounds that are used for detecting the addition or removal of a external device so both PC and laptop are detecting that it is there, it's just not showing up anywhere.
I'm very careful with my equiptmaent to so its not as if I've dropped it or anything like that.... but when I moved it just stopped working for some reason. I've been looking all over for answers to this and just can't find anything relevant to my search. I a,m also using all the original cabeling that I had set up at my old house too.
I'll be interested to see if anyone can help me with this because the only thing I can come up with is that it's died along the way from my old house to the new one but seeing as I cant access anything on it Im not sure if its because theres no data being accessed which is the reason it is so quiet. Blue power light is on and solid at the back aswell.
Thoughts ? ...