GA-X58A-UD3R and WD Passport External Hard Drive not working...

[mikeyb0000]

Hey,

I recently got a gaming system from overclockers, with an overclocked i7 920 and a GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard. However, I have a WD Essential Passport external hard drive which works fine on my HP laptop (Windows 7 Professional 64-bit), but cannot be recognised on my new desktop (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit).

This is really annoying me, can anyone think why this could be? ive tried all 8 USB ports on the back, and the two case ports.

I can't get the exact error message as it just ignores the drive when i plug it in now and gives the sound of connecting, followed by the disconnection sound very quickly. the error message was along the lines of, driver unidentified, device not recognised.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[mikeyb0000]

Perhaps

Perthaps it has something to do with not enough power being sent to the passport drive? this is what many other people have had problems with, however, this motherboard states it has 3x power, so I'm still a little confused. I've tried a million and one wires with it aswell.