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wigfield
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 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: cant get my computer to see my tom as removable |
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i dont know whats going on but im conncting my go300 but it doesn't show up when i click on MY computer
it use to work the last time i had it connected was march time
im running XP
it shows up in device manager under disk drive |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Did you switch it on (the GO300)?
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wigfield
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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 yea
when it detects it it telling me its not installed it Properly so it might not work
i dont get why its not installing to my pc ive had it connected to my pc loads of time without problem |
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DennisN
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Uninstall device and plug it into a different USB hole?
Try it on your best mate's computer?
Borrow your best mate's USB lead?
Borrow your best mate's GO300 to try on your PC?
Swear at the wretched thing?
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Then count to ten.....and swear some more..
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wigfield
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:24 am Post subject: |
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i do feel like doing something bad to it
ive just tried this
If i take the sd card out and then connect it to my pc it instals ok and the bubble pops up saying Hardware installed and ready to use
but it still doesn't appear in my computer
if i uninstall it pop the sd card in and install it i get the message saying a problem occurred |
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999tommo
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Bizarre. Any boffins out there in PGPSW aware of this ??
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Clarify, please?
Is that - take SD card out of GO300, connect GO300 and it bubbles "installed new hardware, your new hardware is ready" (or something).
If you then put SD card into GO300 and plug in, you get the device error?
If so, that sounds like the first operation merely connects the USB driver/hub or whatever that is - you wouldn't see anything under My Computer because all you've got there is a cable and the GO (but with no "drive" - SD card - in it).
Second operation will be a dud SD card. Have you been switching off or disconnecting from computer without waiting for it to stop doing something?
NOW TELL ME you've got so many copies of the SD card on your PC that you laugh at SD card problems and simply wipe the card and copy one of your backup copies onto it. 
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wigfield
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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sounds like the sd card then
no ive not been doing anything to the tom when i shouldn't of been
ive got a backup copy that i did before i installed the newer version version 6
how do you wipe the sd card?
if i cant connect the tom to my pc? |
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Haven't got a card reader then? Haven't you got ANY mates at all? - put it in their card reader and delete everything - some people would have you reformat it, but I'm not clever enough to answer what format when you come back and ask that one (there's FAT, FAT16 and FAT32, I think, but I take that as an insult, although they don't seem to have one for my age yet).
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Or buy a new SD card?
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:58 am Post subject: |
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Just wait
i thought i would get out my slug of a laptop i connected it up and hey it works fine
why would there be a conflict with this computer all my usb ports work fine  |
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Pretty sure it's FAT32 Dennis. Don't think FAT64 for old folk has been invented yet.
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| wigfield wrote: | Just wait
i thought i would get out my slug of a laptop i connected it up and hey it works fine
why would there be a conflict with this computer all my usb ports work fine |
It's what they do to P.. you off. Every now and then, my D drive with all my Tom Tom stuff on it just dies. After many reboots it eventually comes back again, but I've had enough and have got a new one to make a third and transferred everything to it (and copied everything to both my external Hard Disks). I'm up to Drive M: at last count.
If you're a whizz, open up the PC and check to see all the thingies are pushed fully into their sockets in case the USB thingy has moved a bit loose.
FAT64 isn't old enough.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| ill have to have a look inside but i cant see there would be anything loose |
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