boooooO!

It says there's no partition. What do I do??? <3!

BooMBooM: is/was there stuff on it?

what exactly did he do the the pc?

cor256: Yes, all my files from th old comp.

itarille: he completely replaced all the innards.

BooMBooM: it might be something as easy as going in and giving it a new drive letter association.

BooMBooM: and when I say easy I mean easy because I've been doing this for years. Had to get that out before you started calling me names.

cor256: I was just looking & not understanding. Sort of like this O.o

BooMBooM: hmmm.. trying to think of the best way to splain it.

kk

are you using Windows XP?

VIsta

blogs.techrepublic.com.c... see if this might help some

kk

Hm... connect to other PC, make sure it can be seen. If so, VISTA isn't accepting the device for some reason.

cor256: Thanks for the link, though this drive is showing up with a black bar in disc mgmt, showing no partition.

It worked on the PC w/ Vista before I completely rebuilt it and reinstalled Vista...but now it doesn't recognize it.

It also doesn't show up on my MacBookPro or Steph's laptop w/ XP despite being a PlugNPlay drive w/ "no software needed" website support. =(

NoShow: black bar?? hmm not good. I was hoping it was a simple drive letter conflict. more research, brb

I fear the FAT is corrupt. I've never been able to fix this without wiping it clean and starting over. I'm hoping other have better

suggestions. I think you can repair it with 3rd party software (probibly some Linux work too.