Hi,

Here's the buzz:

I've just reinstalled Win Xp Pro sp3, as it'd take longer to fix than to reinstall...

Anyways, I can plug any usb stick to any Usb ports, and it's gonna work.

But, I can't plug my external hard drive, which worked fine before the reinstallation. Windows does not even make a "I got something new connecting" sound. Nothing happens in the device manager. No USB port seems to work with this 2.5 IN hard drive.

So I tried plugging that hard drive on my laptop --> works fine... tried on a friend's laptop, worked fine.

Then,, I went to the device manager, clicked on view>show hidden devices, and uninstalled everything under "storage volumes". Note that you can't see this if you did not click on "show hidden devices". Rebooted.

didn't work.

Help! lol.. Never seen that before.

Hi,
If the drive is a SATA you may have to reinstall it before windows will recognize it.

Try running "install new hardware" in the control panel and use the SATA installation disk to install. If you don't have one, go online and get one from there.

This hard drive worked without additionnal drivers. just like a USB stick. But now when I plug it, windows does not see any new devices at all.

It works in any other computers though.

any ideas? I havn't found any solution yet.

Right click my computer -> manage -> disk management

is it there?

It's not there. Which is why I'm about to think Aliens want something from me.

hi there!
could there be an issue with the power being supplied to the drive by the computer? that would be my best bet.

Hi,
Go online, find a driver for the hard drive and use the installation program and see what happens, you can not do any harm and it may work.

he doesnt need a driver if he has XP

It works flawlessly on any other Win xp computer.