Recent content by kabeach2001

That helps enormously. It wasn't obvious at first, but it's definitely a Windows file....so I needn't trouble my pretty little head about it! Thanks kabeach2001

What's an .xpi file? Can't seem to track down much information. Is it a plugin for firefox?? kabeach2001

Just in case anyone ever follows up this old thread. About a week back I picked up the Medion HDDrive2go from the shelf where I'd stashed it in disgust...plugged it in and VOILA! instantly recognised and mounted. Lord knows why it didn't wanna do it before, but I now have 2 back-up drives...

Sorry folks....I had to drop all of this to deal with family problems. If anyone is still monitoring this Got back yesterday and Medion had left me a message saying they could only find out that it was a "USB bridge" and the original manufacturers were Western Digital. I've done a quick...

Shark, you're going to have to talk me through that... Previously when I try to partition I get this dialogue box ('setting up' PDF) and nothing happens at all. When I try what you've suggested I get this dialogue box ('NOT setting up' PDF) and again nothing seems to happen....for hours...

I've asked the question and they're coming back to me after calling the original manufacturers (this is obviously only branded by Medion). Thanks again for sticking with this. Every day I'm trying to erase or partition just in case it suddenly works! Keith

Well, this is going well...not Tried partitioning, but nothing happens (I gave it an hour), tried different quantities of partition, tried erasing but nothing. Enclose the screenshot of nothing happening. Jeff...you are allowed to give up on this. kabeach2001

PDF included It never even ocurred to me to partition...I won't try it until you respond to this. Would it be a good idea to partition (2, 3, 4?) anyway. Might it be easier to rescue data some time in the future??? kabeach2001 I feel the urge to fly over and hug some anonymous Texan!

Don't be tempted to buy a large tablet (as I did). They have their uses but most of us need to make relatively small hand movements PLUS it can be tiring to have to swipe across a large area to get to the bit you need on screen. kabeach2001

Thanks for responding Yep, tried Disc Utility but it doesn't have any apparent effect. I've attached PDFs to show situation. The Medion HDDrive2go is greyed out ??? I suppose I could always try to sell it on Ebay. But if this can get sorted out it's a cheaper storage solution for everyone...

My Maxtor external hard drive went belly-up so I'm going to take it to a data recovery company to rescue what I can. As it's about 125Gb of data I've bought a new external HD to load the old stuff onto. MEDION HDDrive2go Front of box says connect to any computer with USB interface - side of...