I have one of those days yesterday which ended with my laptop not recognising my external hard drive. As I have nearly 160GB worth of music, photos and web design resources, this was slightly concerning to me. Despite being a Freecom drive, Windows (XP) tried to find a driver for ‘Cypress AT2LP RC42′. I let Windows try and find the driver on the Internet (which has never worked for me ever) but to no avail.
Fearing the worst, I then turned all my hopes to Google and discovered (as per usual) that I wasn’t the first to have this problem. Basically, it wasn’t the drive that had the problems but the enclosure that houses the drive. The enclosure itself had threw a hissy fit and lost its driver therefore leaving the drive unrecognisable and inaccessible.
After trying several possible remedies, I stumbled upon my eventual solution. To cut a long solution short, I basically uninstalled the drive completely, downloaded a new driver for the enclosure then flashed the drive upon reconnection. As you can imagine, I was very relieved to see my drive come back to life..
However, it has given me in the kick up the arse I’ve been needed to invest in additional back-up media, I need something around the 320gb mark, any suggestions?
