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Old Jun 9, 2008 | 12:57 pm
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Originally Posted by happytravelling
I have several external drives and arrays. I encountered a problem with
one drive simliar to your problem, only to find that it is not supported under windows vista. After looking at the specs of the other drives, I find that only two drives support windows vista. I don't have the reason available(there is a reason), but under windows xp, there is no problem. I didn't expect this to be a problem, but there you go...
2 op my newer external HDs work well with XP but would not work with Vista. At one point with the SP1 update, they worked for couple of power-ups. Never showed up on explorer window again since. Tried to delete INFCACHE file deal, to no avail
I think Vista sucks.
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