HDD problem 2.5

I took the Fujitsu hard drive out of my laptop to get the pics off of there. I plugged it via USB to my desktop here at work. It shows up as a mass storage device in Device Manager. It doesn't show up in Computer management. Any suggestions?

Here are a couple of screenshots.





I'm using Windows XP. I tried it on my laptop last night(Windows Vista) and it showed it as Disk 1 in Computer management. I tried to initialize it, but then it said the device was not ready.

I tried the initialize disk and like I said it says device not ready . I'll post some screenshots later of how it looks on the laptop

This is so insanely frustrating. I have the exact same problem, except I'm using Vista (home premium 64 bit). I have a regular Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, (Western Digital green Caviar) 500 GB, and it's brand new. I plugged I into a USB connector, and power supply, and my computer installs it, it shows up in Disk Management (not windows explorer) and basically what I need to do is initialize it, but it just says "device not ready". My first thought was that it may be being used by a program (like when you try to delete a program that's doing something, you get the message that you don't have permission to perform the task...) but I checked my processes and I didn't recognize anything abnormal. I decided to try one of my fancy new programs (active@ undeleting enterprise), and it finds the disk, however, the options are limited. It gives the option to format the disk, but then it says that an unexpected error occurred, and the program terminates. (I don't get it.. why would there be an expected error? Being a software tester, I expect errors... but why would a program expect an error? Windows has some pretty dumb errors...)

Regardless, I'm unable to use my drive, or find anything useful anywhere.

Didi you ever solvev this issue? I have the same problem.

If the device relies on power via USB; there can be problems if the device doesn't get the power it wants. Some USB casings come with two USB connectors; one for DATA transfer and one for POWER. Connecting both to different USB hubs should make this problem go away. If its a power issue.

My problem WAS a power issue, even though it didn't appear to be; My computer could see the drive, and it looked as if it should work; but there was not enough power to actually use the drive; I got a new power cable, and it has worked fine since.