That's all all we know about the XP machine. THE MOST COMMON REASON I FIND is...
XP (the one without the patches) can only see up to 127 or so GB Volumes. Documented at many places including
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=127_GB_-_137_GB_Limitation&vgnextoid=186b5b1142aec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
It could be you don't run XP but something else?
Bob
I have recently bought a Maxel Tank h500 external hard drive, which came with an eSATA connection as well as a USB lead. Unfortunately my PC (WinXP) does not sport an eSATA input, and so I obtained an eSATA-to-USB adaptor.. I was able to successfully connect the device to my wife's laptop (Win7) in this way, and have transferred some data to the Maxel Drive.
However when I link Maxel to my PC the system acknowledges that there is a Removable Storage device there, but is unable to find the disk or it's contents, and asks me to put a disk into the device!
Can anyone explain what is likely to be the problem here and how I can get to "see" the contents of the new drive, and make use of the device?

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