Western Digital 6TB External Hard Drive on a Dell XPS 8700.

Started by Jay Zeus, Feb 28, 2017, in Entertainment Add to Reading List

  1. Jay Zeus
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    Jay Zeus I am the god-favored weed strain

    Feb 28, 2017
    Is it supposed to be giving me this much trouble? First 8 times I plugged it in, it worked, but reluctantly so. And by reluctantly working, I mean it just barely wanted to acknowledge that it was plugged in. First six times, I realized where I went wrong, but wasn't sure I believed the 2.0 vs. 3.0 argument to come into play. Apparently, that made all the different. Until I transferred the USB hub from a 2.0 port to a 3.0. It only detected it being plugged up once since then.

    After that, when I got to the ninth time of trying out every port available on my Dell XPS 8700 Desktop, it hadn't recognized it as being plugged up anymore. I've done a lot since I bought this hard drive. Even upgraded my operating system from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro. What could have went wrong with this hard drive installation process? I really need to know because I'm so close to running out of space that I'm ready to panic. All of the help and professional suggestions are both welcomed and appreciated, in advance!
     
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  2. Lucy
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    Feb 28, 2017
    I could help you with this problem, but i'm on your ignore so get f----- c---- lol
     
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    Feb 28, 2017
    your controller is dead u need to take the hardrive out of the casing
     
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