USB Hard Drive Behavior

[Parvardigar]

I have a 200 Hitachi. Formatted. Copied over data for storage. Two
days later the computer didn't detect (usb external) the drive.
Plugged it into several other computers. I can see the drive in
Windows Explorer but the drive will not 'open'. However, the system
would warn if I unplugged the device. I changed the drive into another
encloser. No detection of the hard drive. However, looking in XP admin
tools ; computer management there's the drive. It states "healthy". I
elected to format and formatted it to fat32. This didn't get me access
to the drive.

I elected to delete the partition, create a new partition, and
formatted the drive to NTFS. And though computer management shows
freshly formated NTFS drive as healthy I cannot open it in the normal
fashion using Windows Explorer. Is there a fix on this persistant
anomoly?

 

[Poprivet]

I have a 200 Hitachi. Formatted. Copied over data for storage. Two
days later the computer didn't detect (usb external) the drive.
Plugged it into several other computers. I can see the drive in
Windows Explorer but the drive will not 'open'. However, the system
would warn if I unplugged the device. I changed the drive into another
encloser. No detection of the hard drive. However, looking in XP admin
tools ; computer management there's the drive. It states "healthy". I
elected to format and formatted it to fat32. This didn't get me access
to the drive.

I elected to delete the partition, create a new partition, and
formatted the drive to NTFS. And though computer management shows
freshly formated NTFS drive as healthy I cannot open it in the normal
fashion using Windows Explorer. Is there a fix on this persistant
anomoly?

Probably; RTFM for details. Some cannot be managed as you're trying to do,
though most can. If you've lost the docs, check the Mfr's site for them.