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From: tamas080 on 5 Mar 2006 17:35
Hi everyone,

Wondering if anyone can help.

I have an external Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" hard drive mounted in a an
external enclosure made by Dabsvalue.

When I plug it in and power it up, Windows finds a USB mass storage
device and gets as far as identifying it as a hard drive, but then does
not show the drive in the My Computer folder.

The same happens whether I plug it into the computer's original USB1
port or into a PCMCIA USB2 hub, for which all the relevant drivers are
installed.

The enclosure did not come with any drivers: the documentation said
this was not necessary under XP SP2.

>From googling through this newsgroup, it seems that the drive may not
be formatted. Is this possible, and in this case what can I do about
it? Are there any other possible explanations?

Really grateful if anyone has any suggestions,

Regards,

Thomas

From: Beemer Biker on 5 Mar 2006 17:45
<tamas080(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1141598112.661377.30780(a)t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everyone,
>
> Wondering if anyone can help.
>
> I have an external Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" hard drive mounted in a an
> external enclosure made by Dabsvalue.
>
> When I plug it in and power it up, Windows finds a USB mass storage
> device and gets as far as identifying it as a hard drive, but then does
> not show the drive in the My Computer folder.
>

Check that it is set to master. Think that some of those external boxes
have problems with slave or cable select. If not formatted it should still
show up in those disk management tools (but not on my computer)


> The same happens whether I plug it into the computer's original USB1
> port or into a PCMCIA USB2 hub, for which all the relevant drivers are
> installed.
>
> The enclosure did not come with any drivers: the documentation said
> this was not necessary under XP SP2.
>
> >From googling through this newsgroup, it seems that the drive may not
> be formatted. Is this possible, and in this case what can I do about
> it? Are there any other possible explanations?
>
> Really grateful if anyone has any suggestions,
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>


From: tomescritt on 5 Mar 2006 17:55
Thanks for the suggestion.

Pardon my naivety, but is this a setting on the ATA to USB gateway
board or on the drive itself? And how do I go about changing the
setting? I didn't notice any jumpers on the board, and there's no
bundled software with which to do it.

From: Michael Hawes on 5 Mar 2006 17:54

<tamas080(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1141598112.661377.30780(a)t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> Hi everyone,
>
> Wondering if anyone can help.
>
> I have an external Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" hard drive mounted in a an
> external enclosure made by Dabsvalue.
>
> When I plug it in and power it up, Windows finds a USB mass storage
> device and gets as far as identifying it as a hard drive, but then does
> not show the drive in the My Computer folder.
>
> The same happens whether I plug it into the computer's original USB1
> port or into a PCMCIA USB2 hub, for which all the relevant drivers are
> installed.
>
> The enclosure did not come with any drivers: the documentation said
> this was not necessary under XP SP2.
>
>>From googling through this newsgroup, it seems that the drive may not
> be formatted. Is this possible, and in this case what can I do about
> it? Are there any other possible explanations?
>
> Really grateful if anyone has any suggestions,
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
Start = Help & Support, search for 'disk management'.
Mike.


From: Peter on 5 Mar 2006 17:58
> Hi everyone,
>
> Wondering if anyone can help.
>
> I have an external Hitachi Deskstar 3.5" hard drive mounted in a an
> external enclosure made by Dabsvalue.
>
> When I plug it in and power it up, Windows finds a USB mass storage
> device and gets as far as identifying it as a hard drive, but then does
> not show the drive in the My Computer folder.
>
> The same happens whether I plug it into the computer's original USB1
> port or into a PCMCIA USB2 hub, for which all the relevant drivers are
> installed.
>
> The enclosure did not come with any drivers: the documentation said
> this was not necessary under XP SP2.
>
> >From googling through this newsgroup, it seems that the drive may not
> be formatted. Is this possible, and in this case what can I do about
> it? Are there any other possible explanations?
>
> Really grateful if anyone has any suggestions,

First, see if external disk is visible in Device Manager:
Run | devmgmt.msc | expand "Disk drives" branch
do you see additional disk there?

If yes, you may try to assign a logical drive letter to it:
Run | diskmgmt.msc | select partition on USB drive | right-click | Change
Drive Letter and Paths...
and assign a new letter to it.



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