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External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up

Posted: 05-13-2007, 07:41 PM
Sue
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Hi There

I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo say
it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it. Plugged it
into my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am doing wrong
vista picks up my other external drives ok.
Any help would be appreciated as I have tried everywhere for a drive but to
no avail.

Sue

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Cal Bear '66
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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-13-2007, 08:09 PM
Have you gone into Administrative Tools> Computer Management and looked under
Disk Management to see if the drive is recognized there? You must partition,
format and assign a drive letter before you can see and use a new drive.


"Sue" <susan.davies3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Hi There
>
> I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo say
> it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it. Plugged it into
> my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am doing wrong vista picks
> up my other external drives ok.
> Any help would be appreciated as I have tried everywhere for a drive but to no
> avail.
>
> Sue

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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-13-2007, 08:43 PM
Hi

Thanks for your quick reply.
Yes I have tried admin tools but no drive.
How can I format drive if I cannot see it?

Sue
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Cal Bear '66
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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-13-2007, 08:53 PM
Ouch!
Different USB port? Different cable?
Take it back and try another unit or different brand?


"Sue" <susan.davies3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> Yes I have tried admin tools but no drive.
> How can I format drive if I cannot see it?
>
> Sue

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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-13-2007, 09:05 PM
Thanks again Cal Bear

have tried all of that but to no avail

Thanks

Sue
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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pickit up
Posted: 05-14-2007, 03:37 AM
Sue wrote:
> Hi There
>
> I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo
> say it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it.
> Plugged it into my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am
> doing wrong vista picks up my other external drives ok.
What actually happens when you plug the drive into Vista? Any error
messages?

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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-14-2007, 05:06 PM
hi
nothing happens at all

sue
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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pickit up
Posted: 05-15-2007, 01:22 AM
Sue wrote:
> hi
> nothing happens at all
Ugh. That's not the answer I expected. Is it a USB drive? Firewire?
eSATA?

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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-15-2007, 12:03 PM
Hi again

Its a combo drive firewire or usb.
Buffalo still say its compatible

sue
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Cal Bear '66
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Re: External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up
Posted: 05-15-2007, 03:53 PM
Perhaps the drive IS defective?
Have you tried it on another machine?

"Sue" <susan.davies3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Hi again
>
> Its a combo drive firewire or usb.
> Buffalo still say its compatible
>
> sue

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