I agree with David's assessment that it is probably a Windows issue rather
than hardware. Have you tried running device manager and doing a scan for
new hardware? To run device manager directly rather than going through
control panel, just run devmgmt.msc. I suspect that your drive will be
recognized in the scan. This may not be the solution that you ultimately
want, but it might be a patch. Also, try going to drive manager and assign a
specific drive letter to the external drive.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
I have a Dell Ispiron 545 running Win 7 Home Premium with 2 external hard
drives connected to a USB 2 hub. Recently the Maxtor external HD is not
recognized either when booting up or waking up after Sleep. If I unplug the
USB cable from the drive and plug it in it is immediately recognized. I've
tried changing the USB cable, using different USB ports both on the Hub and
on the computer but it is still not recognized on boot or wake up. I would
appreciate any suggestions to fix this if possible. If not I'll replace the
drive as the cost of external drives is quite cheap.

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