External Drives DON"T WORK WITH VISTA

Hey ,

Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work with
windows vista

let me know please

I had no problem connecting my external 250GB hard drive. I then used
Vista's backup routine to do an image backup, which worked very quickly.

Dave

"abc@shaw.ca" <we@shaw> wrote in message
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> Hey ,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work

with

> windows vista
>
> let me know please
>
>

If you mean install/run Vista from an external, only if the drive is
either a SCSI or SATA. To Vista, a USB external drive defines
itself as "Removable" which is not a supported installation setup.

"abc@shaw.ca" <we@shaw> wrote in message
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> Hey ,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work
> with windows vista
>
> let me know please
>

What kind of drive and is it connected to the mobo via a pass-through?

"abc@shaw.ca" <we@shaw> wrote in message
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> Hey ,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work
> with windows vista
>
> let me know please
>

I have the same problem with my HotWay NAS drive with a 300GB HDD
installed. It CANNOT connect to it via ethernet.

"abc@shaw.ca" wrote:

> Hey ,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work with
> windows vista
>
> let me know please
>
>
>

I have the same problem with my HotWay NAS drive with a 300GB HDD
installed. It CANNOT connect to it via ethernet.

"abc@shaw.ca" wrote:

> Hey ,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work with
> windows vista
>
> let me know please
>
>
>

"HoochieMamma" <hoochiemamma72@hotmail.com(don''''t spam me mo fo''''s)>
wrote in message news:EED99628-5768-4585-82DD-94E0B6A2FC25@microsoft.com...

>I have the same problem with my HotWay NAS drive with a 300GB HDD
> installed. It CANNOT connect to it via ethernet.

NAS drives work fine... No problem with my LinkSys.

I had similar problem. I went into device manager. Scroll down to "Universal
Serial Bus Controllers" and then to "USB Mass Storage Device(s)". Should see
an icon "plug" with no "X" shown on icon(s). If an "X" appears right-click on
appropriate icon - properties - drivers.

Driver required: "C:\windows\system32\drivers\USBSTOT.sys"

Hope this helps.

"Noozer" wrote:

>
> "HoochieMamma" <hoochiemamma72@hotmail.com(don''''t spam me mo fo''''s)>
> wrote in message news:EED99628-5768-4585-82DD-94E0B6A2FC25@microsoft.com...

>
> NAS drives work fine... No problem with my LinkSys.
>
>
>

Correction:

Driver required: "C:\windows\system32\drivers\USBSTOR.sys" instead of:

Driver required: "C:\windows\system32\drivers\USBSTOT.sys"

Sorry



"Dick C." wrote:

> I had similar problem. I went into device manager. Scroll down to "Universal
> Serial Bus Controllers" and then to "USB Mass Storage Device(s)". Should see
> an icon "plug" with no "X" shown on icon(s). If an "X" appears right-click on
> appropriate icon - properties - drivers.
>
> Driver required: "C:\windows\system32\drivers\USBSTOT.sys"
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> "Noozer" wrote:
>

my external drives work just fine. just by plugging it into the USB port...
"abc@shaw.ca" wrote:

> Hey ,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a soloution to make an external drive work with
> windows vista
>
> let me know please
>
>
>