USB Hard Drive Problems

[dmakaveli21]

i recently purchased an 80 GB Western Digital hard drive, and a USB 2.0 enclosure kit. i followed all the instructions that i was given, i set the hard drive to master, im sure all the plugs are in correctly, and i installed the drivers that were given to me. i plugged in the hard drive into the USB port and plugged in the power source, and the drive is on, but even after i restarted my computer the new hard drive does not show up anywhere. i dont know too much about computers so im lost as to what i should do...could someone please help? thanks.

 

[rugrat]

First a couple of questions,
What operating system are you running?
Second, how many drives show up in explorer?

Let us know

 

[dmakaveli21]

im running windows 98 and there are a total of 4 drives, my 3 1/2 floppy (A),my original hard drive (C),my original CD drive (D),and a CD-RW drive that i installed later (E). thanks in advance for the help!

 

[LONGHAIR]

Are you sure that the USB ports work? Have you tested them with anything else?

 

[~Candy~]

When the drive is first plugged in, does windows even see it? And begin to install drivers?

 

[dmakaveli21]

yes i know the USB port works i used to have a scanner plugged into it that worked just fine. and yes, originally when i first plugged the drive in and turned the computer on, it was recognized and all the drivers installed fine. then i restarted, but the new drive was nowhere to be found. i tried uninstalling all the drivers and repeating the whole process but it still didnt work!

 

[~Candy~]

Do you ever get the little icon for it in the lower right hand corner? What version of 98 are you using? I had trouble getting 98 to work with my USB drive, but 98SE works fine, once I found the correct drivers for it

 

[rugrat]

Another thought, Win98 has a problem seeing drives beyond E
Go to start, run and type sysedit
Open your config.sys file
Add the line "lastdrive=z" without quotes.
This will allow windows to see drives beyond letter E

 

[~Candy~]

RR, is that just 98? I hadn't heard that........