USB 2.0 Hard Drive is not assigned a drive letter

When I connect a Buslink 80G USB 2.0 extenal hard drive
it gets partially recognized by XP as a mass storage
device but no drive letter is assigned and the drive
cannot be located in windows explorer. When I attach
other usb devices like cameras or memory pens baloons
come up from the task bar describing the device and the
installation process. This does not happen with the
Buskink drive. A mass storage device just appears in
the "safe to remove hardware" icon. When I double click
the remove icon the mass storage device is identified as
a Samsung SP0802N USB Device with no drive letter. How
can I get a drive letter assigned to this device.

Probably needs to be partitioned and formatted: right click My
Computer > Manage > Disk Management. Right click in unallocated space
and select partition.

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:47:41 -0700, "Norman Dennis"
<nddennis@earthlink.net> wrote:

>When I connect a Buslink 80G USB 2.0 extenal hard drive
>it gets partially recognized by XP as a mass storage
>device but no drive letter is assigned and the drive
>cannot be located in windows explorer. When I attach
>other usb devices like cameras or memory pens baloons
>come up from the task bar describing the device and the
>installation process. This does not happen with the
>Buskink drive. A mass storage device just appears in
>the "safe to remove hardware" icon. When I double click
>the remove icon the mass storage device is identified as
>a Samsung SP0802N USB Device with no drive letter. How
>can I get a drive letter assigned to this device.

Thanks, drive works with no problem

>-----Original Message-----
>Probably needs to be partitioned and formatted: right
click My
>Computer > Manage > Disk Management. Right click in
unallocated space
>and select partition.
>
>On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 23:47:41 -0700, "Norman Dennis"
><nddennis@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>When I connect a Buslink 80G USB 2.0 extenal hard drive
>>it gets partially recognized by XP as a mass storage
>>device but no drive letter is assigned and the drive
>>cannot be located in windows explorer. When I attach
>>other usb devices like cameras or memory pens baloons
>>come up from the task bar describing the device and the
>>installation process. This does not happen with the
>>Buskink drive. A mass storage device just appears in
>>the "safe to remove hardware" icon. When I double click
>>the remove icon the mass storage device is identified as
>>a Samsung SP0802N USB Device with no drive letter. How
>>can I get a drive letter assigned to this device.
>
>.
>