How to access maxtor portable storage

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a Maxtor Basics Portable Storage 160gb which is appearing in my disc drives and laptop recognises that its working properly but i cannot see it in my computer to add files to it. Ive searched the fourns but couldnt see anything relevant to my problem. any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Emerald]

does it show in the Disk Manager on your computer? is so try changing the drive latter