



Recently, my external harddrive which is 1TB in capacity, stopped showing all my files on it when I plugged it in. I have a similar problem (no disk in drive message) and Ive tried most solutions on the net, and they are not working for me. Hope this helps your friend get things working! You can find out for yourself by popping over to the HP Support Center and searching on your workstation. There are no additional drivers for Windows XP and HP doesn’t support the use of XP on this machine, from what I can see. Make sure that both the Start drive letter and the End drive letter are the same. Under Reserved drive letters, select M (or the previously assigned letter) from the pull-down menu. The System Properties window appears.ĭouble-click the CD-ROM name, and click the Settings tab. What you’re seeing is that quite often, when you upgrade Windows, the OS can change the drive letters from the default, which, as you are seeing, causes all sorts of recognition problems.Ĭlick Properties. The HP 7100 Workstation is an older machine that didn’t ship with XP (which it’s now running) so this suggests the machine has been upgraded.
