USB drive not showing up on "My Computer"

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How long have you had SP2 installed?

Try Control Panel > Portable Media Devices.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE) & Security

Jeff wrote:
> I am using XP Home SP-2 and have a USB external hard drive (Western
> Digital)
> which I've had and used for over a year and use it to back up to.
>
> I do not know what happened, but it now no longer appears as an icon when
> I
> open My Computer as it used to previously. I can still find it and access
> it in explorer (and in many apps) by going to its drive letter (J , but
> cannot see its icon within My Computer along with all the other logical
> drives where it used to appear as "H:."
>
> What could have happened? I did temporarily use an external DVD burner
> (also
> USB) which I now no longer have. I suspect that may have had something to
> do with this icon disappearance, but how do I get back to where things
> used
> to be with the backup HD showing as H: in "my computer"?
>
> I rebooted the system and that did not help.
>
> Thanks.