No drive letter assigned to ext hdd

M

malarkey

Using Home XP. Int. HDD on laptop is failing, so using CMS data xfer kit to
xfer data from old HDD to new via USB port and CMS software.

When new HDD initially plugged into USB port, Windows recognized new hdw,
but hasn't assigned a drive letter to new HDD. Can't proceed w/o that.
 
E

Elmo

malarkey said:
Using Home XP. Int. HDD on laptop is failing, so using CMS data xfer kit to
xfer data from old HDD to new via USB port and CMS software.

When new HDD initially plugged into USB port, Windows recognized new hdw,
but hasn't assigned a drive letter to new HDD. Can't proceed w/o that.
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Maybe something here:

Troubleshooting for USB drives
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

USB Help site
http://www.usbman.com/WinME USB Guide.htm

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575
 

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