USB Connected HD Not Assigned Drive Letter

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a Dell Laptop with a Maxtor HD attached via USB,
>W2K, SP4. Under device manager the HD is listed as a
disk
>drive and the USB Mass Storage Device appears under USB
>Controllers. The drive works when installed inside other
>W2K machines. W2K does not assign the drive a Letter and
>it does not appear under disk management. Had the same
>issue with SP3 and multiple tries installing USB drivers.
>
>The drive is alive and talking to the laptop becuause
it's
>listed as a disk drive, but w2K isn't giving it a drive
>letter. I've read just about in the knowledge base with
>USB in it. I believe I have the same problem as DaveP.
on
>6/27 but the solution hasn't fixed my prob.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>.
>
Is the drive formatted? If not, Windows will not give it a
drive letter. How is listed under Disk Management? as
unallocatted space? If so , create a partition and format
it.