Hi,
I picked up an 160 GB external USB HD this past weekend that was on sale. It came preformatted as FAT32. While my Dell C600 notebook system (Windows XP) sees, mounts and uses the drive without any problems, my older desktop system (also Windows XP) does not. The system knows I have plugged something in, but never properly initializes it for use. The device manager shows a ping (!) beside the "USB Mass Storage Device" entry that pops up when the drive is plugged in.
I am suspecting there is a BIOS problem (although it is the latest available version for my 5 year old M
because this older system also will not recognize several other large capacity (60 GB to 80 G
HDs that I have tried to use on it (system won't even boot when they are attached). On the other hand, I have successfully used an 80 GB external USB HD on the desktop that was formatted as NTFS (go figure). The only suggestion that the external HD manufacturer recommended was reformat the 160 HD as NTFS.
Has anyone else run into this problem before, and how did you solve it (short of buying a new computer)?
Thanks,
Tomboy
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