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Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

Original Message

Name: Bran-D
Date: September 1, 2006 at 00:55:47 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive
OS: Win ME
CPU/Ram: 2900
Model/Manufacturer: AMD Athlon XP

Comment:

I plug in my portable hard disk, the window detect and is install, but is not displaying my portable hard disk drive in my computer, so i can't access my portable hard disk at all.

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Response Number 1

Name: Ed in Texas.
Date: September 1, 2006 at 02:44:49 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

Reply: (edit)

Bran-D, could be a dumb question, but... Did you reboot with the drive connected to allow Windows to detect it?
HTH.
Ed in Texas.

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Response Number 2

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: September 1, 2006 at 02:46:56 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

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Have you looked in Disk Management to make sure it's seen there? If so, try manually assigning it a drive letter.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

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Response Number 3

Name: Bran-D
Date: September 1, 2006 at 19:22:24 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

Reply: (edit)

I had reboot with the drive connected to allow Windows to detect it.How to get to Disk Management??

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Response Number 4

Name: trvlr
Date: September 2, 2006 at 08:17:30 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

Reply: (edit)

For '98 one has to provide the drivers for the usb enclosure (at least for the one I have); presumably same applies to ME? No additional drivers required for S2K/XP however. Mine came with a mini-cd with for the '98 drivers.

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Response Number 5

Name: dosser
Date: September 2, 2006 at 10:30:20 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

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ME has built in support for mass storage devices......

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Response Number 6

Name: trvlr
Date: September 2, 2006 at 11:40:34 Pacific
Subject: Not Displaying Portable Drive

Reply: (edit)

OK thanks for that snippet... Not having played with ME very much (by intent...) not really sure what it does/doesn't have in terms of support for whatever...
Also the following may be of help?
http://www.usbman.com/winxpusbguide.htm
seems to cover a few imtes that may impinge here?

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