USB Mass Storage Issues

[eebabe]

In the 'safely remove hardware' it shows the hard drive but did not register the drive on 'my computer'. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Sleepsalot]

Has the drive been formated? Check for the drive in disk management.
Wayne

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[kestrel1]

As sleepsalot says, check the drive is in disk management, which can be found in Administative tools-Computer Management.
If it is not formatted you can do this from the Disk Management console.

 

[eebabe]

Drive have been formated with windows XP Pro SP 1 and I checked disk management. It didn't register over there either. Is there any kind of utilities to read the data?

Thanks.

 

[satrow]

SP1 had issues with drives over 137Gb ... how big is yours?

 

[kestrel1]

Upgrade to SP2, the problems with drive size have been sorted.
You may find that the drive will be recognised.

 

[smah]

Is this a flash drive? Does it work in other systems?

 

[Freestone]

Windows XP SP1 actually fixed issues with drives > 137GB (

http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm).

Any chance a product called GoBack was installed on the drive?

 

[smah]

Just for the record, the 48 bit LBA size related issues only limited the 'available' drive size; it did not make the drive invisible to disk management.

 

[Freestone]

Correct, smah, totally irrelevant to the reported problem, but I was trying to correct misconceptions regarding XP SP1 for any casual readers.

 

[eebabe]

Thanks for all your replies, appreciate it. The drive is 200 GB. It was working a few weeks ago until I imported outlook message rules and then it stopped working. It might be the registry so I tried to slave it, but the BIOS did not even recognize it anymore. So I attached it as external drive using USB connection, the 'safely remove hardware' window sees it as Maxtor drive but 'my computer' cannot register it as a drive. Ran Maxtor utilities but to no avail. Do you all think my drive is fried?

 

[Freestone]

Assuming this is an IDE drive, is it set as Master? Some enclosure require that setting.

 

[eebabe]

Yes, tried both, set to master and slave. Still cannot register the drive on 'my computer'.