USB hard drive strange problem

[Guest]

Hi, I really need help here...


My USB hard drive loads in the device manager as nonremovable (no storage
volumes).
Also the drive icon and drive label does not appear.
Shows up with no drive letter in Device Manager, I set a drive letter from
Device Manager, under properties still no drive letter except in the Device
Manager. No drive letter windows explorer or my computer.

Back up program works with the drive. Can backup and restore.
Windows Internet explorer, outlook express, Acad, word and any program can
see the drive. (Seagate (F))

In the safley remove hardware under the stop button are USB Mass storage
device, seagate external drive usb device and unknown device on volume manager

Rebooting has doesn't work (back to the beginning)
I used diskpart from the command line to assign a drive letter, still no go.

Call Seagate and they don’t know why.
My camera and my small usb hard drive works.

Microsoft Windows XP service pack 2 installed

Is it necessary to add a drive letter every time the computer boots?
What’s the fix?

 

[Guest]

Did you assign a drive letter in disk management?

 

[Guest]

Yes I assigned drive letter F and it disapears after reboot or turing off the
drive.
Ran chkdsk,( /r) and (/f) reported no problems.

 

[Guest]

Fix it !!
Went to Device Manger and turned on show hidden devices. then I remove all
with the yellow ? Some of them came back after a reboot. I updated driver in
the yellow ? with the storage volumes and that worked!