My computer has gone blind!

[John]

My computer suddenly can't see my external drive (the one with all my FS stuff on!) any ideas?!?!?!?

Thanks in advance guys

John

[Techy111]

John just a thought mate......Do you have auto updates on...? If yes do a system restore to a day that it worked....May work..?

Tony

[Garry Russell]

I did have that trouble with my ICY box and fiddling with the lead got it to register and load up

Sorry I can't be more techinical than that. :-(

Garry

[John]

Thanks guys...sadly I've tried those suggestions and still nothing :-(

Kind regards and thanks for trying

John

[Trev Clark]

The net is full of warnings about Screenshot.com being overun with virusses, any chance you may have caught something nasty John?

[glen]

The net is full of warnings about Screenshot.com being overun with virusses, any chance you may have caught something nasty John?

yeah I've seen those, but I've had no problems specific to teh site, or even a hint of it

John

[nigelb]

Have you checked in the Device Manager to see if your external drive shows there? If you have XP right click on My Computer, select properties, then select the Harware tab and finally select Device Manager and expand the Drives to see what is listed. (You can also get to the device manager via the Control Panel under Performance and Maintenance, then System). I am sure you have tried unplugging and then plugging the drive back in. Let us know what you find.

Cheers,
The Other One

[John]

Many thanks fortaking the time to reply... but I suspect the worst. I tried it on a friends's machine (Glen/GMT59) and it can't see it either, so I supect it's the drive that's the prob which is a bugger!

John