Kitmeow279
OSNN Newbie
- Joined
- 22 Jun 2007
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Dear people,
Please help! I bought a 250 GB external hard drive so that I can move ALL my music files and iTunes there, so as not to clog my measly 60GB built-it hard drive. Well, turns out that iTunes can't run from the directory where it's installed, it must use up a folder in MyDocuments to store all its stupid music files.
Well, OK. I said forget it, and decided to use the external hard drive for storage and backup purposes only. When I went to unplug the darn thing I went to the little icon near the clock (at the bottom right of the screen) and clicked "safely remove hardware". A window popped up and told me that the hardware is in use and I can't remove it.
So like an idiot I went to device Manager and set the stupid thing to "disabled", and then safely unplugged it.
The problem is...... when I go to plug it back in the system tells me that I plugged in a "mass storage device" and that's it! It doesn't show up in device manager at all! It dissapeared!
What to do? I am ready to take a hammer to it!
Please help!
P.S. I use Win XP service pack 2 on an Acer laptop
Please help! I bought a 250 GB external hard drive so that I can move ALL my music files and iTunes there, so as not to clog my measly 60GB built-it hard drive. Well, turns out that iTunes can't run from the directory where it's installed, it must use up a folder in MyDocuments to store all its stupid music files.
Well, OK. I said forget it, and decided to use the external hard drive for storage and backup purposes only. When I went to unplug the darn thing I went to the little icon near the clock (at the bottom right of the screen) and clicked "safely remove hardware". A window popped up and told me that the hardware is in use and I can't remove it.
So like an idiot I went to device Manager and set the stupid thing to "disabled", and then safely unplugged it.
The problem is...... when I go to plug it back in the system tells me that I plugged in a "mass storage device" and that's it! It doesn't show up in device manager at all! It dissapeared!
What to do? I am ready to take a hammer to it!
Please help!
P.S. I use Win XP service pack 2 on an Acer laptop
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