External Hard drive PROBLEM :(

[Rob.]

Got my External USB Hard drive to day, Plugged it into all the computers in my house to test it before i put it in the car pc, Works in all house computers, So i go to put it in the car When i plug it into the car pc windows finds it installs drivers , Ect. And in device manager it has the full name of the drive(Model + Name)so i know its working, But when i go into 'My Computer' It only has C:\ and no other drives

on my other pc's the External hard drive came up as I:\

 

[Frasers Cup]

Maybe the car pc usb port doesnt have enough power to pick up the device in my computer.... A hard drive uses a fair amount and sometimes needs a mains passthrough cable.

 

[Frasers Cup]

I bet it would work with a memory key...

 

[Rob.]

But windows is saying its found it and its working it even tells me the device name + model number. It only needs USB power As theres no where to plug mains in.

 

[Gareth]

right click on your computer on the desktop, select manage, look under disk management and see if it is listed. If it is, you can format it, set the drive letter, etc.

 

[Frasers Cup]

It must be formatted if its picking it up on the other machines?

 

[Munson]

Sounds like it's just unallocated space. You'll need to slap a partition on it in disk management, then it'll show up in Explorer.

 

[Gareth]

^^ that's what I was getting at, the main thing is that it is not uncommon for external drives to not show on some systems, yet under disk management they do.

 

[Griff]

As Gareth said go into Disk Management and see if it appears. It might just need a drive letter associating with it.

 

[Rob.]

Ok, i will go try that now. Brb

 

[Rob.]

Had a look in 'disk manager' and only thing to be seen is c:\

 

[Munson]

Check to see if the BIOS can see it.

 

[Rob.]

Where in bios would it be :S

 

[TheCake]

Is this a USB/USB2 problem perhaps?

 

[Rob.]

Just been back out there, It works now, It was b/c of the USB Hub, So i moved some things about and it works