have you installed the Windows 98 USB updates from Microsoft? these should be referenced by the documentation included with the drive or may be on the CD ROM itselt. are you running Windows 98 or Windows 98SE? i think that you need to be running Windows 98SE to use USB disk drives.
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Hi, I just got a Maxtor 3000LE external hard drive and I installed the correct drivers but it is not showing up. I am using Windows 98. What can I do?

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