external hard drive problem

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited May 2008 in The Clubhouse
over the weekend I uninstalled all AOL/AIM software from my computer.. and everything went smooth.

The following day and now my external 500g My Book hard drive keeps being deleted from my computer. It's hooked up via USB 2.0 cable. it's been running fine for a whole year, now it or my computer is giving me fits.

I have to unplug the power cord for the hard drive to get the computer to recognize the hard drive again. If I reboot the computer it still won't recognize the external HD. this is freaking me out. I swear I didn't monkey around with anything else but removing the AOL software.
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited May 2008
    DB, go to control panel/system/USB - delete the USB tree, reboot, and let windows rebuild the USB tree, and see if you get back your USB ports.

    Assuming you have XP.
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited May 2008
    AOL is very invasive software with, as you have found out, unintended consequences following removal. Do the USB tree removal as polkatese suggested, if no worky: then use the Ext HD driver disk that it probably came with the HD, or check with the manufacuture's website if there are drivers available.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited May 2008
    if you remove the USB tree in safe mode it may work better I think...atleast I always did that stuff in safe mode...im no techy though
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