hi there :yippee:

hope you can help. i bought a 250G seagate internal HD to put into an exturnal HD case. it has a USB connection to my PC. try as i might it just wont show the icon for it in my computer. i connected it inturnaly and the same problem happens... am i stupid or is there some other problem that im not aware of ( im running XPSP2 )

Before My Computer sees a disk drive it must be formatted (initialized).

Go to Disk Management and right click the drive and Format.

Disk Management can be found via right clicking My Computer then click Manage then Disk Management.

Originally Posted by Tiggerkzn

thx for the advice bud.
though i tried what you said, i put the drive inside the pc and followed your instructions, and vwala!! it worked. i then took it out and put it in the usb case and the pc wont find it i have 2 80G drives already and wanted this to be a removable drive is there some sort of conflict????? :armed:

Just to verify:

It is not detected under either My Computer nor Disk Management?

Any other problems with USB devices?

Is Plug and Play enabled in your Services as well as BIOS?

Also in the BIOS is there a setting for Auto Detect hard drives?

Also are you sure that the external case is compatible with the drive?