cannot recognize external hard drive anymore

[scottfmd]

I have been using an Iomega External Firewire hard drive for many years
without problem. Recently I had to reinstall my operating system due to a
wireless networking problem. Now that my XP is up and running again, the
computer does not recognize the drive. It comes up on the "my computer"
window as just a generic "local disk" with a drive letter, rather than the
IOMEGA HDD icon like it used to. When I right click properties, it shows the
free and used space on the drive that reflects the files I have saved on it;
however I cannot access the files by clicking on the drive. The device is
listed on the "device manager" properly as the Iomega External hard Drive.
How do I get the computer to recognize the drive like it used to? There is
no driver software required and I did not make any changes to the drive. In
fact, it was not connected while I was restoring the OS.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have been using an Iomega External Firewire hard drive for many
years without problem. Recently I had to reinstall my operating
system due to a wireless networking problem. Now that my XP is up
and running again, the computer does not recognize the drive. It
comes up on the "my computer" window as just a generic "local disk"
with a drive letter, rather than the IOMEGA HDD icon like it used
to. When I right click properties, it shows the free and used
space on the drive that reflects the files I have saved on it;
however I cannot access the files by clicking on the drive. The
device is listed on the "device manager" properly as the Iomega
External hard Drive. How do I get the computer to recognize the
drive like it used to? There is no driver software required and I
did not make any changes to the drive. In fact, it was not
connected while I was restoring the OS.

Which all leads to the fact that you did not install the fancy Iomega
software that originally came with thre external drive. ;-)

 

[GHalleck]

I have been using an Iomega External Firewire hard drive for many years
without problem. Recently I had to reinstall my operating system due to a
wireless networking problem. Now that my XP is up and running again, the
computer does not recognize the drive. It comes up on the "my computer"
window as just a generic "local disk" with a drive letter, rather than the
IOMEGA HDD icon like it used to. When I right click properties, it shows the
free and used space on the drive that reflects the files I have saved on it;
however I cannot access the files by clicking on the drive. The device is
listed on the "device manager" properly as the Iomega External hard Drive.
How do I get the computer to recognize the drive like it used to? There is
no driver software required and I did not make any changes to the drive. In
fact, it was not connected while I was restoring the OS.

For the Iomega icons, there should have been an Iomega utility cdrom
or diskette that accompanied the drive. Or there is an *.ico file on
the hard drive itself, this containing the icon for the Iomega drive.
But if the drive is functioning properly without its icon present, then
leave it alone.