External hard drives, like USB-sticks, should be plug and play. I'd go into DIsk Management, and see if you can repartition it or rename the volume name or so.
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I thought at first that my older drive had just quit... so I bought a new Seagate b/u drive... and the computer recognizes it as the old drive and will NOT let me access it! How does one delete whatever is causing this so I can use the new one?

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