USB 2.0 Hard Disk

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What, key phrase Windows Server 2003


"Nick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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|I have a laptop 40GB drive in a USB2 housing that powers
itself of the
| USB port.
|
| Plug and Play correctly detects this device on Windows
2000 and Windows
| XP right down to "Generic volume".
|
| However Windows Server 2003 will only detect "USB Mass
Storage Device"
| and "USB 2.0 Storage Device USB Device", not "Generic
volume".
|
| Am I missing a driver here or what?
|
| TIA
|
| Nick

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It should still work fine under Windows 2003. You might need to go into the
Disk Management and assign it a drive letter after you have connected it.

--
Eric Renken
Microsoft Associate Expert.
Expert Zone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/



"Nick" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>I have a laptop 40GB drive in a USB2 housing that powers itself of the USB
>port.
>
> Plug and Play correctly detects this device on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
> right down to "Generic volume".
>
> However Windows Server 2003 will only detect "USB Mass Storage Device" and
> "USB 2.0 Storage Device USB Device", not "Generic volume".
>
> Am I missing a driver here or what?
>
> TIA
>
> Nick

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Eric Renken wrote:
> It should still work fine under Windows 2003. You might need to go into the
> Disk Management and assign it a drive letter after you have connected it.
>
It's a FAT32 partition on the USB drive.

I checked and s2k3 supports FAT32, but the PnP fails to detect the
partition, so DM won't help.

Maybe the drive is on the way out; who knows.

Nick

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Jim Macklin wrote:
> What, key phrase Windows Server 2003
>
Too cryptic for me Jim! Please explain.

Nick