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Error 43
Xas1953NC:
Boggin, did a power down and start up but no joy.
Still_Game:
I've had a similar problem for some time that I've never been able to resolve completely. I've 2 drives in usb enclosures that I use to back up a Lenovo G560 laptop using Casper 8.0 under Windows 7. If I plug in a drive, Casper recognises it and commences a backup procedure but the drive never sppears in My Computer with drive letters. Also, when the backup id completed I can't safely eject the drive but need to shut down and then disconnect the drives. However, if I enter Computer Management and look for attached drives, Windows can see the physical drives but assigns no letters to the individual sectors. If I right click on the sectors of the drive and assign drive letters, hey presto, they are visible in My Computer.
I also have to say that the backups work faultlessly if I swap the drives into the Lenovo and boot up. But I've spoken at length to Future Systems Developments who developed Casper and despite many helpful suggestions, they've never managed to solve my issue of not being able to easily eject the drives - although the problem developed suddenly after some years without the issue
So it would be interesting to know if your drives are visible in disk msnagement and if they csn be manually assigned letters and subsequently appear as drives in My Computer?
Boggin:
Looks like S_G has beaten me to that suggestion of going into diskmgmt.msc to see if the are listed and assign them drive letters, but having to do that every time can be a chew.
This article may help with that http://woshub.com/windows-doesnt-assign-letters-to-external-and-usb-flash-drives/
However, in this case it is interesting that it occurs on two Lenovo machines - perhaps this should be taken up with Lenovo, but for a general help article to be published, it may not be specific to just Lenovo.
I use an external HDD to create my system images onto from my laptops and Eject isn't an option when right clicking on them, unlike an USB Flash drive, so once the image has been created you just unplug it.
Xas1953NC:
Because Windows does not recognise the external drives which results in code error 43 and Device Manager shows an exclamation mark against the appropriate USB Hub link nothing can be seen in Disk Management area. At 3.00 am today I connected one of the hard drives to my wife's W7 computer and copied across to her 2 TB external drive the contents Videos) then went to bed. I was up at 8.00 am and checked that all the files had copied across ok. My external drive showed up as drive F and drive H. Drive F is actually Drive C when it was in the now defunct Acer tower. Later today I am going to format that drive and use it as an external backup drive for the laptop. Of course this will only be feasible if the error 43 problem gets resolved.
Still_Game:
Boggin - thanks for that link to http://woshub.com/windows-doesnt-assign-letters-to-external-and-usb-flash-drives/ - that looks very helpful. Never found that in my previous searches. I'll wait until after I've done my next backup and then give it a whirl.
as1953 - sorry I couldn't help.........
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