Originally posted by Nodsu
I'm pretty sure you don't have to manually install any drivers for USB storage in XP..
Yes, that's the problem, you need to partition it like Rick said. You can probably do it from Administrative Tools - Disk Management.Originally posted by PSLog
Status: Not initialised {Is THIS the problem??}
Partition Style: Not applicable
Capacity: 38147 MB
Reserved Space: 0 MB
Volumes/Capacity window is empty
The USB adaptor came with drivers for Win 98 only as the installation notes say that software installation is not required for Win ME/2000/XPSNGX1275 said:Did your usb enclosure come with any special drivers?
I took my Toshiba notebook and USB adaptor to a PC outlet with a service department and they had a look at it. For a time they were puzzled why it didn't work. Then the guy suggested testing it on one of their PCs and it worked! It was discovered that the cable I was using was a split cable with two plugs and I had both plugs inserted into the 2 USB ports on my notebook. When I removed one plug the external hard-drive was recognized and I could see the files and folders.Can you plug it into another system to see if it is recognised?
PSLog said:Rick
There were several problems:
1. This is my first week with a new computer
2. This is my first week with XP
3. This is my first week with USB
4. This is my first week with portable hard drive
5. The front panel USB ports turn out to be not working (machine has now been packed up and returned to supplier)
6. Partitioning hard drive in XP is not exactly intuitive (right click on coloured bar beside disk label!)
Appreciate your help so don't aplogise
Mark
fulcrum29 said:hi guyz......I am new here. I also have the same problem. I took a Segate 40Gb 2.5'' Hard Drive and put it in a USB Enclosure. Now, it works on all other systems, except my own. I went to Device manager and found the disk under disk drives and the usb mass storage device under USB controllers. But my device manager is not detecting it at all. There is obviously no icon in My Computer. In device manager, i went into the device properties of the hard drive. There i went to the policies tab and optimised for disk performance (which means that the windows cache will be enabled and that i will have to use the safely remove hardware icon). However, in the Volumes tab i tried to populate the drive (expose the drive partitions) but i get this :-
Volume information for this disk cannot be found. This may happen if the disk is a 1394 or a USB device on a Windows 2000 Machine
I am totally Stumped by that one. I run Windows Xp over here. and it works on everybody else`s system.
Guys Please help!!!!!!
jobeard said:USB is typically formatted as FAT32, which allows the media to be attached
to ANY hardware or OS supporting USB. Your 40gb will do nicely with FAT32.
As there seems to be a rash of USB connectivity issues, I would caution you
to elect the filesystem with the most connectivity--FAT32.
find a friend with Win/98se or any Linux;fulcrum29 said:But the Segate 40 Gb laptop hard drive that i used, did not give me the FAT32 option when i partitioned and formatted it. Is there any way that i can get FAT 32 to work.