An external USB hard drive is not accesible in XP

[Noema]

A friend is having trouble accesing some files in XP from an USB external HDD.

This is the drive (HD-D2-U2FW).


When connected, XP detects the drive and warns that no USB 2.0 was found (it's an older Dell with no fast USB). Could that be it? I assume that that would just hinder the speed of the data transfer, but not prevent access to the drive...

By the way, the files in the external HDD (about 120GBs of .WAV files from a Radio proyect we were working in) were created in a Mac with OS X Panther; the XP box has the main HD formatted in NTFS.

 

[unpolloloco]

Whats the external drive formatted in? If it was formatted by the Mac, instead of the XP, could that be the problem?

 

[aGreenAgent]

Also - the USB port might be dead. OEM computers have USB ports die a lot for some reason.

 

[Noema]

It was formatted by the Mac, yes...that might be the problem but I'd suppose that the drive would be recognized even in that case and just then tell me 'the drive is not formatted' or something.

I'll try another device in the USB when I get the chance, I haven't really checked the computer personally as it is my friend's and we talked about it over the phone.