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Hi, my laptop stopped recognizing my HITACHI HTS541612J9SA00. on device manager i get two general storage devices, and their properties say that they're both working properly plus they're both located on HITACHI HTS541612J9SA00. how could it happen? tried uninstalling both of them - no success.... thanx

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This sounds like a single drive with multiple partitions that's working properly. Just because it doesn't identify the device by name doesn't mean its stopped working. Have you lost drive letters? Also, if it stopped working then you wouldn't be able to boot Windows unless you have multiple drives with some type of redundancy like a RAID array that's mirrored. : ) You can right click My Computer or just Computer IIRC in the later OSs and Manage to bring up your management console. Go to Hard Disk management and check what's active and if you have any drives/partitions that haven't been assigned a letter. This is the place to tell you more about your drives than you probably knew was possible. Good luck!

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