COMSTAR EXTERNAL HARDDRIVE DRIVER

I'm running a laptop with WinXP Home bit. It's little icon in the system tray also is there, and the computer does do it's little bing-bing when it's attached. Reasonable power consumption levels, given that the hard disk alone accounts for the bulk of the consumption. All times are GMT Hi All, I have an external hard drive that worked fine until yesterday, when I effed it up.

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I'm comfortable with software but for some reason uncomfortable with computer hardware. Ok so I installed like 5 different recovery software pgms and none of them recognize that the drive is even there. Noise was low and barely perceptible.

I'm running a laptop with WinXP Home bit. You have to install a driver on constar and every client PC that will use it, presuming that a driver is available for the client you want to access it from. Remove Advertisements Sponsored Links. Pros Fast when connected to USB 2.

Comstar 320GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

Which I find really unbelievable considering it just happened to appear right after I inadvertantly tried to boot from it. Would appreciate your reviews on this product. All times are GMT I am new in this field and don?

Being an unknown vendor basically sticking a hard drive and an enclosure together with some of their stickers to cover the branding, it seems dubious that there's any long term support backing you up if it fails during the 1 year paper warranty. Please try again now or at a later time.

If you unplugged it without using the safe removal, it may have damaged the MFT. Web searches yielded no information at all about this unit, though, with all internet roads leading back to the Future Shop. My computer did show a message 'invalid boot. But hey, maybe the problem existed before I even accidentally plugged it in during startup. You could also try something like partition find and mount or partition table doctor. Windows XP and Vista clients immediately saw it as a connected hard drive, recognizing ,, bytes of free space on the NTFS formatted volume.

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This one hsrddrive will help you sleep better tonight A few seconds are all you need to get a better night's rest. So it's spinning but not reading.

Sorry, there was a problem flagging this post. Sexually explicit or offensive language Spam: Inexpensive at this price. You are reporting the following post: Close inspection made it readily apparent that Comstar had strategically placed their own branding stickers, skewed and haphazardly, atop the original branding of the enclosure.

The device appealed to me not only for its bountiful storage capacity at a price that's lower than an internal GB harddrive alone generally goes for, but also for the promised direct network connectivity, theoretically allowing file sharing haredrive multiple PCs without the need for a server.

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I can't bear to lose the GB of stuff on this drive! If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system ezternal, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem. Anyone want to hold my hand?

I suppose I must have corrupted something like, I don't know, do ext hd's have some kind of system partition or mbr? All in all I'm very satisfied with the device for the price, however I have no plans on using the network functionality, instead sticking to using it haeddrive a USB drive potentially as a USB drive hanging off of a more standards compliant NAS unit. The driver itself is not the pinnacle of harddrivee of use or stability.

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