USB Hard Drive Problems

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.

 

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

Let us know

 

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!

 

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

 

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

 

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!

 

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

 

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

 

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