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EricB. Sorry for the confusion. My system drive is a Western Digital 120GB with my ext. hdd being a Lacie 160GB. My post of yesterday brings the story up to speed so far (re the Lacie). I have now decided to leave alone the Western Digital with the exception that I'm considering forming a...

Thanks for that jolancer, I'll check it out.

No. I've not. Thanks EricB for the suggestion. I'll look at that. I did think that this application was only for Maxtor hdds though. Mine is a Western Digital Caviar SE 120GB. Am I correct in that assumption?

Please forgive the smilies, they've appeared due to coincidentally typed characters- the other forum doesn't support smilies.

The main problem- my p.c. not recognising an ext. hdd has developed further. I received a suggestion on another forum regarding firing it up whilst in safe mode. The following copied text gives the result. Do any of you guys recognise the description of events. Now that the drive has instantly...

Thanks you guys.

Thanks a lot all you guys. I'll have a think about what would be my best route forward and post back with my conclusions. I've not used Partition Magic, is it user friendly? Also any ideas on the external hard drive probem? It can't be a faulty power cable. The power light is on. It can't be a...

Thanks jolancer. This demonstrates one of the problems associated with posting a thread on a tech. forum. Guys (and gals) come on, full of confidence, suggesting an answer to a problem. But who's right. Is it ImUseless or is it jolancer??? Or is it neither? For the 'non-techie' like myself it...

Thanks for that ImUseless. I'll check those things out first. The 10GB partition for the Operating System seems a good idea. I'm having problems getting my p.c. to 'see' an external 160GB usb hard drive which on different days can be visible in none, one or more than one of the following places...

Running MS XP SP2. Onboard hdd is 120GB. It's formatted as follows:- C:\ Primary Partition-NTFS-58.59GB-38% free E:\ Partition-NTFS-53.19GB-39% free (Logical Drive) I would prefer the disk to all be seen as C:\ E:\ currently contains a number of Acronis images of C:\ which are not essential...

Thanks for that ShoobieRat. I'll give it a try and see whether it will still work when returned to the original port.

AND_YOU_ARE and mrpete. Thank you both for your replies. I unplugged the usb plug and tried another usb socket. And it worked o.k.. Looking in Device Manager, the error had disappeared and I've been able to save an incremental image to the external drive so it seems to be working again. Also I...

I've been using an external HDD in conjuction with Acronis True Image to keep disc images. Normally the external drive is recognised by My Computer as Drive 'H'. The drive has ceased to be recognised. I'm using XP Home SP2. Help please.

I'm running XP home and browsing with firefox. When opening multiple web pages, the resulting tabs display a brief id of the site. Since the tabs are so small, some descriptions (which seem to be set by the sites concerned) are less than clear. Can anyone tell me if it's possible to change the...