I am totally baffled with something that happened after I started using my new PC. XPS 8900.
I've been using my WD Live media player and now KDLINKS HD720 connecting two WD MyBook 4TB and 128gb flash drive. The hard drives were always iffy and I hated to disconnect them from the TV and then to my old PC because it would sometimes take too much time for WD Player to reconnect the 4TB drives back to the player, however, at the end, it all worked.
Now, my huge problem...
I got myself a new Dell XPS 8900.
As soon as I connected my WD 4TB drive (via USB) to the new computer and added a few movies, this drive could never be found by the WD player or the 2nd player I bought recently. It just doesn't see it.
I thought that maybe it was only this particular 4TB drive. So, I took my second one and also connected it to my XPS8900. Then disconnected and connected back to the WD Player ... and ... gone. That thing does not see the external HD.
WHY????
Note, my 128gb USB 3.0 is functions just right. No issues after using the new computer. Also, my other 32gb flash drive also works just fine. One similarity that happens for both 128gb and 32gb drives is that this XPS8900 shows me that these 2 drives have errors and need fixing. I reject because I remember that once I did that, this drive stopped working on my WD Media player.
So ... seems like, when my XPS8900 "thinks" that USB/drives have errors, that means it will work just fine on the media player.
Could this new PC added some registry files to the 4TB drives? Is the problem that my old PC was Windows 7 and this one is Windows 10?
I really need these two 4TB drives to be usable on the media player.
Any help would be very appreciated.
Thank you.
I've been using my WD Live media player and now KDLINKS HD720 connecting two WD MyBook 4TB and 128gb flash drive. The hard drives were always iffy and I hated to disconnect them from the TV and then to my old PC because it would sometimes take too much time for WD Player to reconnect the 4TB drives back to the player, however, at the end, it all worked.
Now, my huge problem...
I got myself a new Dell XPS 8900.
As soon as I connected my WD 4TB drive (via USB) to the new computer and added a few movies, this drive could never be found by the WD player or the 2nd player I bought recently. It just doesn't see it.
I thought that maybe it was only this particular 4TB drive. So, I took my second one and also connected it to my XPS8900. Then disconnected and connected back to the WD Player ... and ... gone. That thing does not see the external HD.
WHY????
Note, my 128gb USB 3.0 is functions just right. No issues after using the new computer. Also, my other 32gb flash drive also works just fine. One similarity that happens for both 128gb and 32gb drives is that this XPS8900 shows me that these 2 drives have errors and need fixing. I reject because I remember that once I did that, this drive stopped working on my WD Media player.
So ... seems like, when my XPS8900 "thinks" that USB/drives have errors, that means it will work just fine on the media player.
Could this new PC added some registry files to the 4TB drives? Is the problem that my old PC was Windows 7 and this one is Windows 10?
I really need these two 4TB drives to be usable on the media player.
Any help would be very appreciated.
Thank you.