Sony Vaio PCV-RS720G

Windows XP SP3

2 Gigs of Ram

P4w/HT 3.2Ghz

Nvidia 7900GS

The External HDD isaWestern Digital Element 1TB 3.5" Black External Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136321

It was fine at first. I plugged it in and formatted it and it hada driver letter of E:/

After it was done formatting to NTFS I called it a night. I had to unplug it which I did by doing the Safely Remove Hardware. Then, today I go to use it and it doesn't show up under Hard Drives in My Computer. It does show up under Disc Drivers in Device Manager though. So, how do I fix this?? And no, it's not a dead drive or a bad connection. The light's on and I can hear it spinning and everything.

*Last thing. Whenever I boot up my computer with the drive plugged in, it can't get past the Vaio screen while booting up, it just freezes. I need to eventually be able to boot up my computer with the External HDD. Anyway to get this fixed too??*

Thanks to anyone who can help!!

Does it work the same way as a wireless network adapter card for PCs?? I have one on my computer and that's how I get internet access. (Picking up someone's router's signal). I just want to know before I spend some good dough on one. Thanx.

I just installed a new motherboard. All of the cables and everything are plugged in where they are supposed to go and everything, but when I go to start the computer there's just a blank screen. My monitor light goes from green to orange within seconds of turning it on. The fans are going and everything also so I know it's on and running. What's the problem??

That's my question.

Initially, my processor had only a heatsink w/o a fan. I recently bought and installed a fan (attached to the case and right above the heatsink). I want to know whether I should have it blow on the heatsink or have it blow out of the case through the vent. What are your suggestions??

Also, I'm assuming that if I can feel air coming out of the vent then the fan is blowing the air out and if I can't feel anything it's blowing it in; that's what common sense is telling my anyway, just want to make sure though.

[QUOTE="HotScully"]Do you have Vista?? If so, that could be the problem right there. WHen I had XP I was able to play all my games at medium/high settings with no lag. Then, I got Vista and it all went downhill.n00bkid

You mean UPGRADE to XP. Well, you could either format your hard drive and then install XP or you could create a partition and install XP on that. There will also be people telling you that Vista isn't the problem and that it's great, blah blah blah, but that's all nonsense. As I said, when I had XP all of my games, even newe ones like Dead Space and Far Cry ran perfectly on med/high settings, then I "upgraded" to The Vista Virus and now they suddenly run with incredible lag to the point where the game is unplayable. You do the math.