Hello guys and girls...

I have just bougt a new laptop and a extern box for my 120hdd, its a old (1 1/2year) matox hdd, but when I plug it in the usb (2,0) then its say thats it is working, but I cant find it anywhere..... it is xp home edition on the laptop... but the laptop hdd is ntfs and the extern hdd is fat32, could it be therefor? or something els? I cant format the hdd couse there is alot on it that I havnt backup... any ideas what to do?

Thx mates...

Sic

The problem is not with the format type (ntfs, fat32). Can you see the drive in Disk Manager?

Administrative Tools> Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management.

yeah i can.... I think... not 100% sure, only 95... it is a home... gonna see when I come home... but I think I can.....

it isnt in the disk Management.... what can I do then?

If XP Disk Manager doesn't see the drive, there is no way any other xp tool will see it. How do you know it's working?

Does the "Safely Remove Hardware" box show anything plugged in to the USB port? What about Device Manager? If you post the model # of the external hdd, perhaps I can do some research on this.

Well the "Safely Remove Hardware" comes up, and where I go into this computer, then the extern hdd starts working, but dosnt show, same thing with disk management....

But I can see it under usb media, it says that there is a hdd plug into usb port....

It is a maxtor 120gb...

Could it be the Xp usb driver that needs a opdata?

I had a similar problem once... I had mapped a drive to E:, and for some reason the USB drive wanted to map to E:, but couldn't... and it wouldn't skip and go to F:. So, I switched my mapped drive to Z:, and all is well... I dunno if you might have a similar conflict.

TL

Maybe you'll have to set your LASTDRIVE setting to Z: ... Not sure if this applies to XP though

I had this problem, but i wasnt the one who solved it. from what i got the impression of, I ASSUME you have Admin prvs. If so make sure your USB ports are enabled. (as when I was running 2000 w/o admin they were actually disabled)

XP enables them by default plus it does detect that a device is being plugged in...but it doesn't show in the Explorer...

Does it show in the Hardware overview screen? If so, under what name?

only place it shows is under usb..

As what ?

found the problem..... the F...... thing didnt work but I got a new one now and it´s working
but thx for all the help