by Doorstop » Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:18 am
The disc problem is truly a strange one .. it doesn't show up in disc management at all, in any of the laptop USB ports.
It shows up in device manager, but not as a disc, as an "unknown device" (yellow warning triangle) in the USB hierarchy tree, Right clicking on it and selecting "update drivers" gives the result "drivers for this device are up to date".
Uninstalling the device from the USB tree, and then rebooting only brings me back to square one, device unrecognised.
However, plugging it into my Frankensteined desktop has it being seen immediately! Two of the folders (music and videos) were displaying with a small padlock on them and attempting to open them gave the message "you need to change ownership of this folder by right clicking and going into properties>security and changing the computer that owns the folder/subfolders"
After doing that, the disc and all its folders work fine .. it's a head scratcher.
I have a workaround as I have a 32gig memory key so anything I *really* need from the drive, I pop onto the key and transfer over .. bloody longwinded way to go about it though.
I had an entire 7 series of 'Supernatural' set to give to my friend, Muriel .. that was a right pain in the pee hole to transfer over.
I like him ... He says "Okie Dokie!"