USB hard drive

[ennogs]

A friend has given me his USB hard drive to put some stuff on it for him. I have tried connecting it to both my PC's. I get the found new hardware message and it installs ok. When I go to my computer the drive is not there. However if I check device manager the drive is listed and has no ? or !

Any ideas how I can get access to the drive?

 

[Sin_Chase]

Right Click My Computer > Manage

Select Disk Management from the left tree structure under storage.

Locate the drive, check if it has a drive letter assigned. If not, right click the entry and assign a drive letter.

If this does not solve it it may be formatted with a different filesystem. For Windows XP you need FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS.

 

[SiriusB]

Make sure he has his stuff backed up [if any] before you format it for him!