usb external hard drive problem...please help!

[markgm]

i just bought an external 3.5" firewire/usb enclosure...the firewire part works fine from the laptop, but the usb 1.1 on the desktop doesnt. it shows up as a removeable disk, and thinks it's a cd-rom or a floppy and asks for me to insert a disk every time. i formatted the hard drive and everything, even installed the drivers that came with the enclosure, no dice. both computers run XP, anything i'm missing? thanks for the help in advance...peace

 

[bruincal]

try to find the manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers for winxp for the enclosure ... since winxp doesn't seem to be correctly identifying the enclosure ..