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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:55 pm
by sloindahed
Thanks a lot emanon and ruff. That was everything I needed to know!
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:37 am
by ruffriders23
Not a problem. Good Luck.
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:27 pm
by sloindahed
Got another problem with this same external hard drive that just came up recently so I thought I might as well post it in this same topic.
A few days ago, I connected the HD to my PS3 through USB to see if my PS3 would recognize it and could access my files. Seeing nothing happen, I thought the console didn't even notice it so I just turned off my HD and reconnected it back to my PC.
However, now I can't open any of the partitions of my HD through "My Computer" as it keeps telling me "G:\ Access is denied." So - thinking this was an ownership problem of the drives - I tried resetting the ownership of all 3 drives (or partitions) in Safe Mode according to
this article
Even after taking ownership, I'm still getting the same error. The weird thing is, I can still access my files in all of the drives through the browse option or through the "folder" sidebar.
You guys know of any way to fix this error?
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:32 pm
by Sir Jig-A-Lot
don't think it's a question of drive Ownership. have you checked the Access or Security settings?!?
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:15 pm
by sloindahed
Nope. How would I do that and what would i do/change? I have XP, btw.
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:20 pm
by Sir Jig-A-Lot
plus her in & goto Properties & then Sharing on the external. let us know how ya go. ;)
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:15 pm
by sloindahed
oh yeah. I've done that already too. I did it in Safe Mode as well, and even though I had no problems in changing the settings, I'm still getting the error.
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:24 pm
by AYHJA
Slo, can you use another computer to verify that nothing is wrong w/the drive..? I plugged my external HD into my PS3 too, and like you, it didn't work...But I didn't experience any issues...Lets do some hardware diag. first...Try the drive on another computer, see if it works, and if it does, we probably have to re-enumerate some USB devices...
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:07 pm
by sloindahed
Yep, I've tried it on my other laptop with XP and I get the same errors. However, when I checked it on my friend's Vista-operated laptop yesterday, it worked fine and I could open the drives from "My Computer".
So I guess it's narrowed down to an XP problem...?
Re: External HD Question
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:47 pm
by AYHJA
:D
See..? Troubleshooting tech issues isn't so bad... :D It sucks that you have them, but at least we know where to start...Works fine on Vista, not so much in XP...So, my first guess would be to plug it into the Vista machine and run a disk check on it, make sure that there aren't any errors in the file table or anything like that...