USB External Hard Drive Issue

[dannyocean]

I have an 80 GB Western Digital drive from my desktop computer that I installed in a USB external case. Everytime I hook it to my laptop, I get a USB device not recognized error message. Not sure what to do.

I also have a 160 gb Seagate in the same brand of box and it is recognized perfectly.

Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA

 

[linney]

why doesnt xp pro recognize usb drives after installing SP1?
thread779-837163

314634 - Windows XP Does Not Detect Your New USB Device

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314634&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

http://groups.google.com/groups?sou...device+not+recognized+error+message+laptop+xp

http://www.google.com/search?source...device+not+recognized+error+message+laptop+xp

 

[rvnguy]

dannyocean,

Just a check: On Your desktop this drive was formatted as:

FAT32 or NTFS?

You laptop's OS is Win?? if not W2K or newer,and the drive is NTFS it will not be recognized.

Just a thought.

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[vitrader]

Are you using a USB ver 2.0 hub to connect these devices?

Al Odlum
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