i got my bf in iraq an external hd for his laptop and he said he can plug it in and view whats on teh drive, but cant click on it or access anything.

he has winXP, its a western digital usb harddrive

help!

12/7/2005 2:06:18 PM

Maybe there is some kind of switch or something that causes write protection? Like that little black square on the top left of a diskette.

12/7/2005 3:27:07 PM

well i put a couple movies on it for him, and i had no problems accessing it from my computer.

i think hes had this problem before, i put downloaded movies on his computer and his computer couldnt read the file or something so it would freeze up. right now hes having the same problem.

12/7/2005 11:58:05 PM

movies? he might not have the right codecs...i'm assuming these are avi or mpg files?

12/8/2005 12:11:13 AM

Download and install the VLC. Windows Media sucks at playing everything. See if that helps.

12/8/2005 3:33:05 AM

^ she did and it still won't play...vlc won't play something with the latest codec if they don't have the latest codec installed

12/8/2005 9:47:05 AM

i'd just get rid of all video codecs on the system (that are possible to remove) and install 3ivx: http://www.3ivx.com/download/windows.html

of course, any additional required codecs should be installed as well, but that takes care of most everything.

12/8/2005 12:19:14 PM