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External HDD does not show in Explorer (WinXP)

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[rant]Arrrgh. I hate WinXP.[/rant]

Had to send my laptop in for a warranty repair (2 out of 3 USB ports did not work properly) and am using an old 'spare' WinXP laptop.
After being used to Win7 (and vista before that), WinXP feels like the stone age and nothing works!!!!!

My biggest problem is using an external USB HDD.
Plugged the HDD in, installed all the drivers ... nothing.
I can manually mount the drive via Computer Management at which point I can run a command prompt command to open Windows Explorer with the drive open (explorer.exe d🙂 ... but I will not show up in Windows Explorer otherwise!!!!!
And if I restart, I lose the drive letter and have to AGAIN go into Computer Management to, manually assign a drive letter and manually open windows explorer.
That svcks TBH.

Is this how WinXP always worked? This is a "fresh" WinXP install (from those horrible Lenovo restore CDs but that is all I have).
All Updates and SP's are installed.
 
I've never had a problem with XP and USB external hard drives. If the disk and the USB adapter are working properly, the new drive should show up quickly.

Last night we were hooking two different IDE-to-USB adapter to various IDE drives and none of them were showing up on an old Sony (USB 1.1) laptop. Finally, we found that hooking the adapter to a different USB port worked better. Since the adapters worked fine on all my other computers, I could only conclude there was a USB issue on that laptop.
 
RebateMonger said:
I've never had a problem with XP and USB external hard drives. If the disk and the USB adapter are working properly, the new drive should show up quickly.

Last night we were hooking two different IDE-to-USB adapter to various IDE drives and none of them were showing up on an old Sony (USB 1.1) laptop. Finally, we found that hooking the adapter to a different USB port worked better. Since the adapters worked fine on all my other computers, I could only conclude there was a USB issue on that laptop.
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No USB issue that I can detect, especially since I can force it to work manually.
Google shows a gazillion people with the same issue but no fixes.
(I tried TweakUI - disabling/enabling drive letters but nada; don't have any firewire devices to disable on this lenovo x40)
 
There was somebody a while back who had a problem with his workplace not recognizing USB drives. The problem turned out to be an Antivirus problem.
 
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