USB 2 - external hard drive not recognised

[Crispin]

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Hi - I am struggling to get my xp pro machine to recognise a ALi - external
USB2 hard drive. When connected I get the Windows "bong" and the drive is
shown bottom right hand corner "Safely Remove Hardware".

Can't see it or access it in explorer.

 

[Guest]

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Go to Start/Run, and type DEVMGMT.MSC , highlight the USB Hub devices, Action menu, "Uninstall", then restart Windows, to find the
device drivers again automatically.

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Mark L. Ferguson
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"Crispin" <Crispin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A26BEE4B-1B78-4148-8808-F8D28DCD3E7C@microsoft.com...
> Hi - I am struggling to get my xp pro machine to recognise a ALi - external
> USB2 hard drive. When connected I get the Windows "bong" and the drive is
> shown bottom right hand corner "Safely Remove Hardware".
>
> Can't see it or access it in explorer.

 

[GTS]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Open Computer Management (right click My Computer and then select Manage.
Is the drive shown there? Is a drive letter assigned? Note if this is a
new drive that has not been partitioned and formatted, you must do this from
Computer Management before it will be shown in Explorer.
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"Crispin" <Crispin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A26BEE4B-1B78-4148-8808-F8D28DCD3E7C@microsoft.com...
> Hi - I am struggling to get my xp pro machine to recognise a ALi -
> external
> USB2 hard drive. When connected I get the Windows "bong" and the drive is
> shown bottom right hand corner "Safely Remove Hardware".
>
> Can't see it or access it in explorer.