More hard drive problems (external)

[gamerx365]

My new external, about a week old, is having problems again. It was working here, then i took it to my dads and it worked. After that it didn't work on 2 XP computers at school, and it didn't work on 2 Vista computers at my friends. Now I formatted my main computer and its not working.

Its coming up with "USB Device Not Recognized". I tried the HP help thing it brought up and nothing worked. This computer has been giving me the same message with flash drives and stuff for a while but the HDD was working just Friday on it. I'm just about sick of all the computer problems I've been having lately. I want to set my computer on FIRE!!! MWAHahahaHA.

Please help.
Thank you very much!

[mayers57]

This page might help: http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID%3D1033&query=USB+device+is+not+recognized&mode=r

[gamerx365]

I asked my uncle. He says the arm is broken. ugh. I have hardware. Though just to make sure, I did look through the knowledge base and found nothing relating to my issue. Guess I just have to find all those files and re-download them. Ugh.

Thanks for the link.

[mroilfield]

What "arm" is broken?

[gamerx365]

that thing that reads. i don't remember what its called. lol. in the drive

[mroilfield]

Ok that is what I thought you were talking about. how does your uncle know that it is broke?

[gamerx365]

he plugged it in and heard it clanking around inside i guess.