Thanks for the suggestion. I tried booting with the drive in the USB port
and it still doesn't show. Next I tried "Add Hardware". I hadn't thought of
that. It showed a "USB Mass Storage Device". That sounded like the right
thing. I selected that, worked with the "Add Hardware Wizard" but couldn't
find the drive.


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, lkuzyk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I don't claim to know anything about computers but just wanted to share
> this information........It may or may not help.   I have one sata connection
> and the external hd is never recognized unless I have the external connected
> at the time of start-up or reboot.  If I connect the external after start up
> then I have to go in to the add hardware function and manually find the
> external hd.
>
> Don't know if this would be your situation or not.
>
>
> Linda Kuzyk
>
>
> ------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer can't see 1TB USB drive
> From: Robert Lendrim <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, March 16, 2010 2:47 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I have a 1 TB sata drive formatted with Acronis as a single logical NTFS
> partition. I formatted it via USB using a Vista Thinkpad T60. The drive
> works fine on the Vista T60. When I connect it to an IBM ThinkCenter XP
> desktop, it is not seen. The little bell sounds indicating it is
> connected,
> but no notice on screen, and not seen by Explorer, Disk Management, or
> Acronis. The desktop bios is latest Jan 2008. The desktop has a
> larger internal 1.5 TB D: drive which works fine.
> Can anybody help me get this workng, or tell me why it won't work? Thank
> you
> very much.
>
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