The Windows 10 laptop I bought came without a CD/DVD drive. I noted that while buying. I figured "no big deal" as I have an external drive.
Well, I hooked the external drive up this morning. Heard the Windows sound that it connected. But it does not show up and can't be used.
Have only done cursory searching so far, but that seems to be "a thing". Numerous complaints of basically the same thing happening. I will be searching for a possible solution today if I have time.
Can you see it with diskmgmt.msc?
Didn't have time to thoroughly check things out yet (had to get to this pesky work thing). That gives me something to check out when I get home, thanks.
Interesting: this afternoon, the external drive seems to show up. Inserted a disc (disk?) and is being read. Strange.
John, post: 414294, member: 791 wrote: Inserted a disc (disk?)
If it's fresh off the shelf it was probably installing/finding drivers.
Something I find my parents do is complain that things don't work immediately. So they unplug it and 'try a different port'
This is why I had to remove 3 copies of their printer as they tried all 4 USB ports (giving it only a second or two before claiming "It's not working!") before calling me.
RADAR, post: 414295, member: 413 wrote: The Grammar Girl says...
:confounded: Can't we just call it an external cap drive.....
Well, as I am still getting used to this Win 10 thing (and don't own anything that has this type of interface), well, I would not rule out being confused. And not giving the computer time to do it's thing.
To think that I used to be the "go to" person along with my brother for computer related questions. Now, well, my stock answer is "I don't know". I can't afford (monetarily and brain space wise it seems) to keep up.
Tried windows 10 but will stick with windows 7 thank you. I look at Windows 7 the same way I do my Glock. I will give it up when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
I just had a bad experience yesterday. I planned on plotting several surveys to record at the county, but recieved a call from a client that he would be leaving in the next hour and I really needed to talk to him about a survey on an adjacent property that also belonged to him. I had just plotted his survey in Carlson, when I returned Windows 10 was in the middle of an update, so I went and fed my cows. When I returned, I accidentally open Carlson a second time and tried to plot. The plot failed and Carlson crashed, I was promped if I wanted to try to save changes, I clicked on no. I then realized that Carlson was already opened. I opened the drawing and tried to plot again, same problem. I decided to reboot, BIG MISTAKE. I never got passed the blue screen of death, windows tried several times to fix the problem, I tried restore points, in the end I had to go back to the factory image. That worked but I lost all the programs. Spent the rest of the day and half of today just to get to the point of being able to plot again. I didn't loose any data, knock on wood, but getting everything to work again is time consuming. Just getting the tool bars to be as before was a task. It had been a while since I had used the CUI command. I never did figure out what actually happened. At one point there was a error report that I clicked on but all that was there was a blank blue screen. I guess, I should be glad that Windows 10 factory reset actually worked.
Things seemed so much easier when everything was done with paper, a t-square and ink or pencils... And if you were really good, a Leroy set.
Along with technology comes technical difficulties
