external USB drive OK with ME but not recognised on XP

[peter.hirt]

Hi,
I have bought a IDE to USB bridge box to use an older 80Gb DiamondPlus
9 HDD from Maxtor as external USB drive.

I formatted under Windows ME with the drive still in the computer
Then I put the drive in the box housing and connected via USB to the
same computer which recognised nicely as USB drive.

Now I wanted to backup some files from my portable Thinkpad running
under XP Professional. Here the drive was not recognised, instead I was
asked if I wanted to format the drive. The format shwed that I could
possibly format a 31,4GB drive, far away from the 80GB capacity of the
drive

Who can help?
Peter

 

[JAD]

Hi,
I have bought a IDE to USB bridge box to use an older 80Gb DiamondPlus
9 HDD from Maxtor as external USB drive.

I formatted under Windows ME with the drive still in the computer
Then I put the drive in the box housing and connected via USB to the
same computer which recognised nicely as USB drive.

Now I wanted to backup some files from my portable Thinkpad running
under XP Professional. Here the drive was not recognised, instead I was
asked if I wanted to format the drive. The format shwed that I could
possibly format a 31,4GB drive, far away from the 80GB capacity of the
drive

Who can help?
Peter

Check your USB drivers on the thinkpad, update them if possible. It may be that your converter is
not compatable with the USB drivers of the laptop.