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  1. hexkev

    USB hard drive not seen by Win ME

    Hi, just telling the happy end to this story, and maybe help someone else out who may be in the same boat: I managed to get the disk working by going into device manager and looking at the disk drive properties. In there it was not seeing the drive as a removable drive. So I selected the...
  2. hexkev

    USB hard drive not seen by Win ME

    Thanks cdogg. I had made that mistake, you're right! I returned to my friend's computer full of hope, but unfortunately, I still couldn't get it going. I tried everything I mentioned but to no avail. I have taken the disc home to try and get it working on my laptop which is similar to his...
  3. hexkev

    USB hard drive not seen by Win ME

    Hi, thanks for the response :) I haven't got all the details with me, but it was a hitachi 40GB drive in a q-tec USB v2.0 (p/n 13280) external drive bay. I had a disc with drivers but the manual said it wasn't needed for ME. I also located a Patch file on the net but the readme file that came...
  4. hexkev

    USB hard drive not seen by Win ME

    Hi, I've just spent a day rebuilding the system on a friend's laptop. After lots of problems with drivers that I managed to solve, mainly by chance, I was finally beaten by a stupid problem. He had a USB hard drive with all his backups on. It worked fine on his system before I touched it. When I...

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