XPost: alt.windows-xp   
   From: James.Dell@SBCGlobal.net   
      
   Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote:   
   > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:54:55 -0400, Jim   
   > wrote:   
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   >> Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:55:22 +0100, Bob L   
   >>>    wrote:   
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   >>>> On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:47:21 -0400, Nil   
   >>>>    wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 08 Oct 2011, Pfsszxt@aol.com wrote in alt.os.windows-xp:   
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   >>>   
   >>>      Is an ACER laptop bought new with XP Pro installed. I have 4   
   >>> working USB ports. Three are used for mouse, printer and scanner.   
   >>>     No one of them will recognize the presence of a USB connected   
   >>> Western Digital or Maxtor hard drive.  The drives are working drives   
   >>> removed from older computers.   
   >> And the drives work in your external case on another PC?   
   >> You are using XP SP3?   
   >> How are the drives formatted (FAT, NTFS, other)?   
   >>   
   >> Jim   
   >   
   >      I doubt that whether there's a drive present or not   
   > is dependent on it's formatting.   
   >   But one I'm fairly surs is FAT, another or two probably   
   > FAT32, one is a never used drive.   
   >   All were working drives when I removed them (new one --bought   
   > never used). They all run in the container .   
      
   Don't understand "They all run in the container"   
      
   Also have you tried XP's Disk Management to see if it's detecting the drive?   
      
   I had a situation once that when I plugged a flash drive into a   
   different port it wasn't given a drive letter.  Manually assigning a   
   drive letter solved my problem.   
      
   Jim   
      
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