removable disk drive has become a local drive

[Guest]

XP on my new Dimension 8300 machine now recognizes my Wolverine 120 gig
portable usb2 hard drive as a local drive and when I attempt to read
from the portable drive it will error out asking me to format.

I have been using this drive on my Dell Inspiron 7000 Laptop with 98SE
for less then a year
I can see and read data from the wolverine just fine with the Laptop


After loading Photoshop 6 onto the new machine with XP, I believe XP
started to use my portable usb2 hard drive as a scratch disc

Then when I looked at the drive, in the control panel its changed from
a removable drive to a local drive.

Now when I click on the drive in the control panel XP wants to format
the drive

I have talked to the wolverinedata.com people and have failed to get XP
to recognize the drive as removable and readable

I have called Dell for info and to explain the above situation and was
sent out 4 restoration cds.
After running the 4 restoration cds the issue still stands

The Wolverine portable usb2 hard drive works fine to this date and all
data is readable on the laptop running Windows 95SE

This seems more a windows issue as XP is not recognizing the portable
usb2 hard drive

and Dell is no hel

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Mitch]

The only thing I can think of is to make sure your drives
are updated. Sorry I'm not much help.

~ MITCH