Originally posted by CSVT1214:
One question before anyone goes any farther. I deal with this stuff on a day to day basis.

Does the hard drive use any type of 3rd party disk utilities on it, such as GoBack or any type of drive overlay software?

Everyone can stop with the jumper setting crap and talking about drivers.

If the device manager is showing the hard drive being present then it has nothing to do with drivers or jumper settings.

When you try it on the XP machine, right click on My Computer, go to Manage, then click Disk Management. In Disk Management you can view the status of the drive you are having problems with. It won't have a drive letter but it will say the size of the drive, status, and what type of file system it is using.

If it says anything other than FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS, then you partitioned the drive using software outside of Windows. That means the only way any computer will recognize the drive is if you install whatever software got the drive like that in the first place.

Hope this helps a little and I'll help with anything else you need to know.



Oh yeah ... Go Back is a major PITA!! I've worked on a consumers desktop with this once, couldn't do jack without it!
I'm lucky that the business systems don't have this stuff (and if they do it goes when I touch them). A quick question though. Would something like GoBack directly affect
the ability to read it when it's not a boot drive ? I guess it must write to the boot sector or something.

Like CSVT1214 inferrs ... XP is definitely your friend in this situation! Check you have permissions to add an external drive though ... seeing as it's your work computer there may be a policy to disable this. It's easily spotted as the policy usually locks down not only USB drives but generally the floppy drive too. I've never tested the policy myself so I don't know how it manifests itself.

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