External HDD Not Recognized?

Hi, I just this minute purchased an external USB HDD, but have problems beside it. My PC (Windows XP Home) does not recognize it. Vendor say that drivers installation is not required for XP. Please, advise

External HDD Not Recognized?

Okay, interesting answers. True, the USB port may be doomed to failure, but you can test that by plugging the USB HDD into one of the USB ports on the fund of the computer; since these are attached directly to the mainboard, they are less promising to be bad. The leading thing you'll want to check to acquire your USB HDD to work is Device Manager.



Click Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware, and then Device Manager (or, hold down the Windows switch and press the "Pause/Break" key, above Page Up... which will bear you into System Properties, where you click Hardware and Device Manager). Check for any devices that own a yellow interview mark by them; if they do, right-click the device, click "Update driver", and permit it search for them automatically.



I occasionally enjoy to do this for my new USB drives, and they pause up working just fine after that. And, no, you don't own to format a USB HDD as NTFS or any of that other mess... it's not a hard drive surrounded by the traditional sense as it has no moving parts.
Try plugging into a different USB port....the one you are plugging into may be on the blink.
It could be that there is no divider on the drive. If its new and you enjoy no data on it, use a software such as wall magic to create a wall on it. if you are going to use it in window, make sure you create an NTFS fence, after you do that, your computer will see it.

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