external hard drive problems

I have a dell laptop, i use a diskgo hard rive to store pics and music
on. A few days go my laptop will not show that the hard drive is plug
n. I did a restore and it didnt help. I re booted xp and it didnt
help. please help

On Wed, 09 May 2007 01:00:18 -0000, no@spam.invalid (macsimpalass)
wrote:

>I have a dell laptop, i use a diskgo hard rive to store pics and music
>on. A few days go my laptop will not show that the hard drive is plug
>n. I did a restore and it didnt help. I re booted xp and it didnt
>help. please help

Does the external drive make noise when it is plugged in? Did you try
it on another computer before hacking around with software? If you
used the thing a lot and there is no fan in the case with the drive,
it likely suffered from overheating.

yes the fan comes on. it works if i plug it in my desk top.

"macsimpalass" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> yes the fan comes on. it works if i plug it in my desk top.
>
Then the problem is with the laptop. Have you tried any other USB
devices on the laptop?

Mike.