NTFS External Hard Drives and USB 2.0 w/Win2000 pro

[clages]

Hi all-
Hope someone can help. I'm trying to access an NTFS formatted hard drive that is in an external hard drive case and connects to my computer thru a USB 2.0 connection. I'm running Windows 2000 Pro and I although the hard drive appears to be connected when I look at the registry and connected hardware, I cannot see the drive under "my Computer". I knew this was a problem in Win98SE, but everyone says the problem went away with 2000 Pro. I'm not finding that to be the case. Any ideas? Can I hardwire this connection by changing the registry? How do I do it?

Thanks-
Chris

 

[heartsurgeon]

try this....

plug in and turn on your external hard drive
double click "my computer" from your main screen
double click "control Panel"
double click "adminstrative tools"
double click "computer management:
double click "disk management"
at this point upper and lower panels should appear on the screen...
on either panel..locate your external hard drive, and right-click on the volume name of the drive, or on the box with the bright bluie line across the top, with the drive name.

onve you've right-clicked..you get a menu thaht will allow you to partition the drive, format the drive, make the partion active, change the drive letter and path....

voila!

if in doubt, partition and format the drive