External HD not showing up on My Computer or Windows Explorer

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JohnnyO

I've searched and searched and can't find anything that is exactly like my
issue. I have an WD SATA (500 GB) drive that came out of a My Book that
died. I took it apart and found that the drive was fine so I formatted it
(NTFS) and backed up my computer by plugging the drive directly onto my
motherboard's SATA connection. I bought an external HD enclosure
(Thermaltake Silver River, dual IDE and SATA). The problem I'm having is
that the drive is recognized in system manager (no errors), I can see it and
even access it under Disk Manager (and yes, it is assigning it a drive letter
(J) ), but it is not showing up in My Computer or Windows Explorer. I'm
having something similiar go on with a NAS I'm working on in the sense that I
can map the drive but it is not showing up on My Computer or Windows
Explorer. Is it related??

Help!!!!
 
Fixed! Kept changing the drive letter in comp management until it showed up
in My Computer. Worked for the NAS as well. I think (using the term
loosely) that it is related to emulation drives throwing the drive letters
off.
 
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