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Re: New Thread: USB Hard drive not being recognized after first plug out.

From: Baron <baron@...>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 12:34:02 +0000
Hi Kate,

On Saturday 08 December 2018 20:37:33 Kate Draven wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Probably nothing to do with this problem, but anyway:
> >
> > If I have a HDD connected via a USB adaptor, I've found that
> > after an initial plugging and use, then safely removing it, going
> > back to it, in the same session, it may or may not be recognised.
> >  Doing a hard reboot seems to clear what ever causes this. 
> > Simply logging out and logging back in doesn't seem to work.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards:
> >             Baron
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >----
>
> I've seen this before. Sometimes it just helps to plug out the unit
> out and do the following.
>
> If you can, power it down, then connect it, power it back up.
> If it works, it's like the unit. If it doesn't, then it's software.
>
> Another thing  you can try is to wait for a few mins, until the
> drive spins up, plug it out, wait 10s plug in again.
>
> It could be the drive is really slow to spin up.
>
> Good luck, let us know what happens.
>
> Kate

Thank you for your reply.  I must admit I didn't wait and logging out 
and re booting takes several seconds.

-- 
Best Regards:
            Baron