Win2K sees usb drive at work but not at home

[Just Me]

Hi
I work on a Win2 k station at work and also at home.
I have a usb portable harddrive which I take back and forth.
At work if I leave the drive on but shut computer down, after shutting down
computer at night and rebooting in the morning, the usb drive is detected
normally and is available as one would expect.
However, if i'm at home, leave the drive on, shut the computer down, reboot
computer, it does not see the drive and the usb 'manager' icon in the
taskbar shows a usb hub with yellow question mark.
I have to turn drive off, then back on, and then windows sees the drive
properly.

The home computer has a usb2.0 card I put in it, the computer at work is
using the built in usb port.
home computer info:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 3 Build 2195
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2 GenuineIntel ~400 Mhz
BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Total Physical Memory 392,696 KB
Available Physical Memory 247,428 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,337,048 KB
Available Virtual Memory 1,085,992 KB

office computer:
not sure but think it's a P3 1.7gig? with 256 ram or maybe 512

Does anyone know of a setting I may be missing
tia

 

[DL]

I seem to recall reading of problems with some usb cards and the
implementation of the 'usb protocal'
It would seem to be a card problem. I'm assuming Win and mb bios is updated
Also check mb/system site for other updates
David

 

[Just Me]

Thanks, that makes sense.