portable USB Drive not appearing

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Josh

I have a portable USB drive for my XP home machine. When
I first connected it I got the new hardware connected
message. But it does not appear as a drive under my
computer (or anywhere else) I can unplug or remove it OK
but just cant see it. I have done the whole help wizard
thing.
 
i had the same problem with my laptop hard drive when
connecting it to the usb port. my problems were as follows.

1. connecting a USB 2.0 device to a USB 1 port causes
problems
2. my laptop hard drive required warranty voiding repairs
(thank god it was a six year old hard drive
3. make sure there is an active partition on the drive
itself so that it can be formatted and read. I use
partition magic pro, wonderful program.
 
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