New hardware found not displaying

[Dale]

When I plug in a jump drive or extranel hard drive the "found new hardware" display does not come up.
I'm running Windows XP home SP3.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Dale

 

[sub mesa]

Any normal external drive would not require drivers to operate, and you should see the disk in the disk management screen (Start -> right click My Computer -> click Manage -> click Disk Management). If it doesn't have a drive letter already, you can assign one here, or at least check windows sees the disk.