External HD compatibility

Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong area, but it does seem to be WinXP-specific.
I recently put together a notebook hard drive with a USB hard drive enclosure. The enclosure came with a driver for several versions of Windows, but not for WinXP, and the paperwork said that WinXP should be able to connect to and use the HD without a driver. The HD & enclosure work fine on my Win98 machine (with the driver installed), but WinXP can't connect to this external HD, either with or without the driver installed. I can't find any other drivers for this item. Any ideas or suggestions?

 

I am having a similar problem with my external USB 2.0 drive. I used a no-name enclosure (probably not the wisest move) and an 120 GB 3.5" IBM drive. I can get XP to recognize that a USB drive has been plugged in because it tells me that I'm using a high speed device in a low speed USB port. I can also get it to safely remove the device, but the drive does NOT show up under My Computer.

The only way I can get it to be recognized completely is to turn the computer and the drive on at the same time. Even this works spottily. This may work for you as a stop gap until a wiser person helps us both.

 

I too am getting this problem. I just bought a 3.5" hdd case, its a skymaster USB 2.0 case and a 120gb hdd. I tried to put it into my usb 2.0 card that is in my computer. No luck. I then put it into my usb 1.0 port, and it detects it, but doesn't come up, because of course, usb 2.0 into a usb 1.0 device. Also, it doesn't come up when I reboot computer with the usb device on. Anyboy have any ideas?

 

anyone at all with ideas? i've been searching around the net, and no luck, i've been trying to search through the windows xp forum, but i can't even seem to get to that, i haven't searched anything in the knowledge base for a while, let alone win xp

 

Hey Guys

I had a similar problem when I bought an external drive and drive case. Xp would not recognise my drive, but my bios did, I solved it by making sure the drive was not set on cable select and most importantly you must setup the drive on the pc first....

by this I mean connect it up to your pc as a slave drive and use disk managment to setup and format it...then install it and place inside the case..... I did it this way and it worked fine...

Also make sure you have XP SP1 installed and that you have the latest Atapi drivers installed.... you need SP1 installed for XP to regocnise drives bigger than 130 gig....



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