pc wont pick up external hard drive

[hitman]

hi all, for some reason my pc wont pick up my external hard drive. it didnt' come with a disk and i tried everything i can think of. i was wondering if anyone else has an idea. i am using xp. it said to just plug it in and then it will pick it up and it doesn't. i tried going to add hardware and it wont pick it up there either. i also tried doing it in a search with no luck also.
thanks for any help i can get.

[hondo]

Is this a usb device and do you have other usb devices that currently work. Sometimes usb has to be turned on in bios.

hope this helps

hondo

[Martok]

I have an Iomega external usb drive that 2.0 and wont work with 1.x usb.

[smilingjack]

The drive should have come with a disk.
First you have to install a USB system and hub (virtual) if you have other USB stuff working already the system is installed and windows should find the drive.

If not you will have to find a USB set up program. Try Microsoft.

[#40Fan]

The latest SP2 has all USB drives needed.

I am assuming that you have a USB device. All of them that I have seen have an external power supply, make sure that is plugged in. Some have switches on the back, make sure it is on. The HDD that is in the external device needs to be set to Master.

Let us know what happens.

[Martok]

hi all, for some reason my pc wont pick up my external hard drive. it didnt' come with a disk and i tried everything i can think of. i was wondering if anyone else has an idea. i am using xp. it said to just plug it in and then it will pick it up and it doesn't. i tried going to add hardware and it wont pick it up there either. i also tried doing it in a search with no luck also.
thanks for any help i can get.

Hitman,

Without more information it's hard to help.

Is the external drive a factory job or a kit?
Is it firewire, usb what version?
Is it scsi, Ide or SATA?
what model is it?
what's your OS?
What's your Mb & BIOS?

I am sure it can be made to work, but i think people including me were assuming you may have had an ideal set of circumstances for installation.

[BirdieMod]

If you have a OEM prepackaged version of XP home those usually do not have the full XP driver files included either. HP is good for cheating you of the full XP versions.