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External USB Drives not found by Vista

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Posted 06 April 2009 - 02:21 AM

My two drives which are both usb devices, one with external power and one powered by USB alone are not being recognised by Vista.

The cabling is fine the USB ports are working correctly as far as I can see and neither device requires a driver.

Thoughts please?

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Posted 06 April 2009 - 03:35 AM

are the enclosures inside the drives IDE or SATA?
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