Just plugged in an external USB 2 drive and it was recognized by my computer (OS is XP Home). However, it does not show up on the list of drives when I double click My Computer. It does show up under device manager and shows it is working fine. Driver is the latest. Why can't I see it when in My Computer? Any ideas? Thanks!
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Jump to Postnever used an external USB drive, so this is just a guess.
Sometimes when you add a brand new HDD to your computer, you will find that because it is not formatted it will not appear in My Computer, to get round this try the following:
click Start> …
Jump to PostYou have to boot for the drive to appear.
Jump to Postdoes it show up in the device manager?
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