I was recently running a 4 port USB hub, but it was usb 1.1. only, so after advice here I bought a PCMCIA USB 2.0 4 port which I have plugged into the side of my laptop. This means I can now attach my mouse, printer and 2 USB external hard drives.
Except it is only finding one of the drives. Why won't it find the other? The green light is on on the hard drive - so there is power.
When I plug it in I hear 2 noises one straight after the other. These are the Windows noises for recognising hardware that's just been plugged in - a digital sort of "uh-huh" (kind of affirmative, yup something's just plugged in), but then straight after I get the "uh-uh" (kind of negative, it's been unplugged again noise) although I haven't unplugged it.
In other words it's like it is spotting it but then disactivating it straight away.
Why is this?
EDIT: a strange thing that happens is when I unplug it and plug it back in, the autoplay function opens and it presents the contents of the other hard drive. Could they both be assigned to drive F with one masking the other? How would I separate them?
If I unplug the 'real' drive F hard drive, and just have the other hard drive in nothing happens though. It used to be drive E.
Except it is only finding one of the drives. Why won't it find the other? The green light is on on the hard drive - so there is power.
When I plug it in I hear 2 noises one straight after the other. These are the Windows noises for recognising hardware that's just been plugged in - a digital sort of "uh-huh" (kind of affirmative, yup something's just plugged in), but then straight after I get the "uh-uh" (kind of negative, it's been unplugged again noise) although I haven't unplugged it.
In other words it's like it is spotting it but then disactivating it straight away.
Why is this?
EDIT: a strange thing that happens is when I unplug it and plug it back in, the autoplay function opens and it presents the contents of the other hard drive. Could they both be assigned to drive F with one masking the other? How would I separate them?
If I unplug the 'real' drive F hard drive, and just have the other hard drive in nothing happens though. It used to be drive E.