XP File Explorer suddenly fails to show external USB hard drive (butdrive exists and other programs show it)

On Nov 29, 12:23 pm, Billal <zeitou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A problem is appearing now, when connecting my 500 external GB, device
> manager shows a yellow sign and in its properties it says, This device
> can not start (Code 10), I can't not open it, as it is not showing in
> "my computer". ...would you please advise... any clues of how to
> solve this issue, would the jumpers have any relation.....my hard
> drive is a Hitachi and it has 16 different configurations for the
> jumpers. please help!

Did you install Partition Manager? Are you new to the internet? We
can't read your mind friend.

RL

Suddenly means you didn't change the jumper settings to cause the issue.
Perhaps your hardware has actually failed. It's an external, connect
it to another machine to verify.

Billal wrote:

> A problem is appearing now, when connecting my 500 external GB, device
> manager shows a yellow sign and in its properties it says, This device
> can not start (Code 10), I can't not open it, as it is not showing in
> "my computer". ...would you please advise... any clues of how to
> solve this issue, would the jumpers have any relation.....my hard
> drive is a Hitachi and it has 16 different configurations for the
> jumpers. please help!