USB 2 - external hard drive not recognised

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Hi - I am struggling to get my xp pro machine to recognise a ALi - external
USB2 hard drive. When connected I get the Windows "bong" and the drive is
shown bottom right hand corner "Safely Remove Hardware".

Can't see it or access it in explorer.
 
Go to Start/Run, and type DEVMGMT.MSC , highlight the USB Hub devices, Action menu, "Uninstall", then restart Windows, to find the
device drivers again automatically.
 
Open Computer Management (right click My Computer and then select Manage.
Is the drive shown there? Is a drive letter assigned? Note if this is a
new drive that has not been partitioned and formatted, you must do this from
Computer Management before it will be shown in Explorer.
 
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