External Drive (USB) Not Recognized
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From: WSR on 11 Mar 2010 09:33 I have XP SP3 and have attached an external drive via a USB cord. While the system tray shows "New Device has been added to your system", when I go to My Computer all that I see is the C:\ drive. No external drive. Any recommendations before I get a new drive? Thanks (B^>)-]=[
From: Jose on 11 Mar 2010 11:44 On Mar 11, 9:33 am, "WSR" <wsr-...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > I have XP SP3 and have attached an external drive via a USB cord. > > While the system tray shows "New Device has been added to your system", when > I go to My Computer all that I see is the C:\ drive. No external drive. > > Any recommendations before I get a new drive? > > Thanks > > (B^>)-]=[ Is it a LaCie Quadra or the Iomega Presige.
From: Unknown on 11 Mar 2010 12:08 Did you reboot with the new drive attached? "WSR" <wsr-203(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e3jnQfSwKHA.5036(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have XP SP3 and have attached an external drive via a USB cord. > > While the system tray shows "New Device has been added to your system", > when I go to My Computer all that I see is the C:\ drive. No external > drive. > > Any recommendations before I get a new drive? > > Thanks > > (B^>)-]=[ >
From: WSR on 11 Mar 2010 13:54 It is a Western Digital and I have rebooted with it attached. Not sure why the System tray recognizes it but the computer does not... "Unknown" <unknown(a)unknown.kom> wrote in message news:%23w3d61TwKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Did you reboot with the new drive attached? > "WSR" <wsr-203(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:e3jnQfSwKHA.5036(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>I have XP SP3 and have attached an external drive via a USB cord. >> >> While the system tray shows "New Device has been added to your system", >> when I go to My Computer all that I see is the C:\ drive. No external >> drive. >> >> Any recommendations before I get a new drive? >> >> Thanks >> >> (B^>)-]=[ >> > >
From: LVTravel on 11 Mar 2010 15:13
"WSR" <wsr-203(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:#qEr9wUwKHA.732(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > It is a Western Digital and I have rebooted with it attached. > > Not sure why the System tray recognizes it but the computer does not... > > > "Unknown" <unknown(a)unknown.kom> wrote in message > news:%23w3d61TwKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Did you reboot with the new drive attached? >> "WSR" <wsr-203(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:e3jnQfSwKHA.5036(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>>I have XP SP3 and have attached an external drive via a USB cord. >>> >>> While the system tray shows "New Device has been added to your system", >>> when I go to My Computer all that I see is the C:\ drive. No external >>> drive. >>> >>> Any recommendations before I get a new drive? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> (B^>)-]=[ >>> >> >> > > Right click on My Computer, Left click on Manage, Disk Management. In the bottom right of the window that opens you should see all drives attached to your computer. Disk 0 is normally the computer's Drive C and any other partitions on it and it should have that or those drive letter/s there. CD-ROM 0 will probably be the CD/DVD drive if one is attached and functional. Any other drives attached even without a drive letter will be showing. Do you see any drive listed that may be your USB drive? Right click on the Disk X (where X is it's number) and then left click on Properties to identify the drive. Under the General tab it will show the drive type and USB device. Once found, if no drive letter is showing it may not have been formatted. Right click on the right hand area and then click Format or Initialize (depending on what is offered.) Once the drive has been formatted it should be recognized by the system and assigned a drive letter. If formatting, chose NTFS as the style of format (unless this drive will be used on an older Win 9X type of computer as NTFS is more reliable and fault tolerant. Another common issue (and you don't mention, but I don't believe this is your issue) is that when hooked to a network with mapped drives on the computer, the Disk Management system does not seem to recognize that the drives are mapped and they "hide" the USB drives that may share the same drive letter. The fix for that would be to map the network drive letters higher in the alphabet. I start at Z and work backward for all my mapped drives. Hope this helps, let us know. |