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Robert Lendrim <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:01:41 -0400
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Thanks, I've never used tweakui on it, but I have assigned drive letters
trying to cause USB drives to appear "above" the DVD drive. I'll look into
that possibility.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> All I can think of is that some computers with tweakui installed may be
> set to suppress some drive letters. As I recall, this setting is under
> Computer.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer can't see 1TB USB drive
> From: Robert Lendrim <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, March 16, 2010 2:47 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I have a 1 TB sata drive formatted with Acronis as a single logical NTFS
> partition. I formatted it via USB using a Vista Thinkpad T60. The drive
> works fine on the Vista T60. When I connect it to an IBM ThinkCenter XP
> desktop, it is not seen. The little bell sounds indicating it is
> connected,
> but no notice on screen, and not seen by Explorer, Disk Management, or
> Acronis. The desktop bios is latest Jan 2008. The desktop has a
> larger internal 1.5 TB D: drive which works fine.
> Can anybody help me get this workng, or tell me why it won't work? Thank
> you
> very much.
>
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