Hard drive is not under My Computer... help?

[NevadaGator]

I have both the drive's driver and the USB 2.0 driver shown as working properly, and the drive appears (also working properly) in my disk drive list in device manager, but does not show in My Computer. How do I assign a drive letter to it and access it? The manual shows how to partition it.... I already have data in it. Everything is active and working properly in the list of connected USB devices.

Help!

BTW WinXP.

P.S. The drive was pulled from a WinME system. Is the FAT32-NTFS that is the problem?

P.S.S. it shows unactivated under my computer, manage, storage, disk management and gives me an error message when I try to activate it.

Thanks!

 

[Ayias]

what os are u on now?
if u are win2k, then u are correct, u cant put an nfts drive in an fat32 system and visa versa.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

<< if u are win2k, then u are correct, u cant put an nfts drive in an fat32 system and visa versa. >>


Windows 9x/ME cannot read NTFS.
Windows 2000/XP can read both NTFS and FAT/FAT32

You need to mess around with the disk management utility. If it detects the hardware but shows no drive letter, that tends to mean your disk isnt partitioned correctly. Can you still read the disk on your old PC? If not, delete the partition and start again.