XP Not 'Seeing' External Drive Used on Win7

Discussion in 'Software' started by Fred_G, Oct 9, 2013.

  1. Fred_G

    Fred_G Heat packin' geek

    I copied some files onto a external USB HD from a USB HD on a Win7 box. Now, no XP machine can 'see' the drive. Win7 boxes can see and access the drive. The XP machines make sound when you plug it in, acts like it is installing the driver, but the drive never shows up in Win Explorer. I have tried 3 XP computers, same thing.

    Any ideas?
     
    Fred_G, Oct 9, 2013
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  2. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Mornin' Fred.

    Might be a "hardware trumps software" problem. What driver is the XP trying to load - what kind of drives are you using?
     
    Caliban, Oct 10, 2013
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  3. Fred_G

    Fred_G Heat packin' geek

    Got it solved, just got a new hard drive and used it on XP.... Was pretty weird.
     
    Fred_G, Oct 10, 2013
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  4. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Good job - glad you got it sorted.
     
    Caliban, Oct 10, 2013
    #4

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