Re: Help Needed: USB External Hard Drive
- From: "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:47:05 GMT
<shayne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased a Western Digital Essential 80 Gigabytes external USB
>hard
> drive. It runs fine on my husband's Dell Dimension 4550 under Windows XP
> Home
> Edition. However, I have not been able to install it on my Dimension XPS
> R450
> running under Windows 98 Second Edition. I have downloaded the Windows 98
> Driver from Western Digital's web site and installed the driver following
> their
> directions. Windows 98 recognizes the external hard drive but not the
> driver
> and claims driver not found. Does anyone know how to get this drive up
> and
> running? Tech support at Western Digital has been useless.
>
> Shayne
I don't have an idea, other than perhaps that drive is too large for the
R450. Many machines of that era had limits.
That said, it also has USB1.1 ports, which means the drive will work
PAINFULLY slowly.
Tom
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