External Hard Drive Not Working

[reyleon166]

Hello,

I Need some help. I have a external hard drive using USB 2.0 to connect. And it stopped working on my desktop. I have tried on two other laptops and the hard drive appears and works. On the desktop
I can see the drive in device manager but when I go into my computer the drive does not show up. I have tried to put the hard drive on different USB ports I have 6 an nothing seems to fix this problem. I have uninstalled drivers and reinstalled and nothing. On device manager I have Oaztor 6".... that shows up as the device. How do I get the drive to work again on my desktop?

 

[micker377]

What OS? There's big difference between 98 and XP.

 

[garebo]

Must be 98 as he is installing drivers where xp will install them on its own?
Still, its important to tell us what os.
You could try re-formatting the hard drive from one of the laptops, but again we would need to know the os. If the laptop formats the h drive as NTFS then it wont work in a win 98 machine. So both the desktop and the laptop must be running the same os.





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[reyleon166]

Sorry I should have put that information. I am using windows XP home edition. The strange thing is that my hard drive is the only thing that does not appear properly. If I put other things in the USB ports they do show up. And again the hard drive does show up on two different laptops running on XP as well.

 

[garebo]

well, if running xp then you shouldnt need drivers?
Anyway, how about my suggestion of reformatting as above?
Its done the job for me when i had a similar problem.


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[micker377]

What does "Disk Management" show for this drive?