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hi guys,

i got myself an external hard drive....
...i bought a 320 gb seagate IDE drive and got it fit into a 3.5 HDD enclosure (some SKY brand) that is IDE to USB 2.0

i plugged it in and the device manager showed a mass storage usb device.....but i saw no drive in MY COMPUTER

i went to disk manager ...the new drive showed there but said UNALLOCATED....from there i made it active and format it using NTFS as the other drives....then reboot.

i still dont see the drive under my computer.
it shows under disk management and device manager only.

Please help

change the drive letter.. if that doesnt help.. tell me

ahamed wrote:change the drive letter.. if that doesnt help.. tell me

It worked...worked worked....yippee !

When i tried the disk on another computer..its read the disk..but coming back to my workstation...it again didnt display the drive.

I deleted the partition and re-activated the disk and format it THIS TIME SPECIFYING THE DRIVE LETTER and it showed.

Thanks a ton Mr.Ahamad

u really donot have to format and re-partition the disk with the hassle of backing up the data,

this would have been the first alternative, if you never formatted your drive.

seems like you already have a F:\ Drive or a e:\ Drive, so the usb device didnt show up.

am glad it worked for you