Send to a Friend

Axemusica's avatar

Windows will not recognize my portable HDD, can you help?

Asked by Axemusica (9500points) August 21st, 2011

I’ve had this portable hard disk drive for quite a few years. It doesn’t get much use because I use it mainly as a data backup. I was going to back up all my filed because I’m planning on getting a new laptop. I plugged it in today and windows (vista32) does not recognize it.

“One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it.”

It’s a Western Digital 150G, model number is WD1200XMSC-00. It’s getting power, the LED is lit up and I can feel it spooling up.

Any ideas?

Using Fluther

or

Using Email

Separate multiple emails with commas.
We’ll only use these emails for this message.