1. I must ask why not partition and format this drive?
2. Is XP up to date? (Needed for USB 2.0 support.)
3. Stop giving it the CD for the drivers. Proceed with partition and format. Many just don't know that you use Disk Management (look in Start, Help and Support) to prepare the drive.
I have a few USB 2.0 drives (not your model, in fact, the USB enclosure make/model was never revealed, could be a defective) and I would not consider it odd that you would have problems when you haven't prepared the drive yet. Work the issues.
Bob
I've been having problems installing drivers for my external hard drive. I bought an external enclosure and hard drive seperately. The external enclosure is using a usb cord, the hard drive just connects into the enclosure. Everything seems fine, the hard drive gets warm which let's me know it's working. The problem is that when I plug in the drive, my computer will recognize it as a usb disk. When I click properties and look in the device status window, it says that no drivers are installed even though I put in the cd and windows installs it. I do get a message saying how the software doesn't pass windows logo testing, but I don't think that would cause this problem. Everytime I want to uninstall the device, the window freezes and doesn't respond. What I would like to know is how do I make windows recognize the hard drive? or how do I uninstall the drivers if it keeps freezing? I've read everywhere that windows should have automatically recognized it. It does the same thing on every other computer I have tested it on.
here is more information:
Windows XP professional
Hard drive: MAXTOR 120gb ATA/EIDE (unformatted)
external enclosure: USB2.0
Driver date: 7/1/2001

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