Hi there I'm new to this site so if I've posted this in the wrong section do appologise.. what it is I've got a IOMEGA external hardrive that use to work fine with my old laptop who had windows xp on it. As I've just bought a new laptop recently with vista on it, I tried connecting the external hard drive to it and I keep getting an error message saying location is not available F:\ is not accessible access is denied.

Thanxs

narry

Do you get any message when you initially connect the drive to the laptop?

And I take it, you get this message in windows explorer when you click on F:?

If you see F: in explorer, right click and click properties and what show up there?

Start, settings, control panel, system icon, hardware tab, device mgr, are there any yellow marks there?