Re: can't read hd in enclosure

"Charles" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> No way it was me! It was "anon" <[email protected]>!
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>> Very OT
>
> In .geeks?  No, pretty apropos, I should think.
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> So, you've looked at the drives in the Device Manager.  Have you looked at
> them with the Storage Manager ("Disk Management")?  They may be there and
> ready to use - but not have an assigned drive letter.

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If it is there but without an assigned letter, how do I get a letter 
assigned? I think there is a place where *listed* drives can be reassigned, 
but if it is not listed??

I looked at the list of drives for removable media and there are actually 
four camera card readers (drive letters f,g,h,i) and only f was listed to 
change the drive letter.

Remember this is a hard drive enclosure on a USB port that I am trying to 
read.

Most of  the manager window help sounds like working on an interior drive 
after it HAS been accessed - this external drive has not been accessed - 
seems that the drivers are what have been installed but nothing else.

BTW I took the enclosure back to he store and talked to their service 
department and they could not get it to work (tried another enclosure - same 
result.) They had no idea why (seems they had not had this happen before.
In addition, I had previously tried another drive - didn't work, sent it 
back - replacement did not work either.

Also tried al of the above enclosures on another winxp computer - did not 
work there either.

The only thing that the techs could think of is that the drive is an ATA 
drive formatted for win98se and the computer is a winxp with a different 
file format on its hard drive - maybe winxp can only read drives formatted 
for the 'file format' that xp uses (NTFS, FAT, or FAT32.) I think win98se 
uses FAT or  FAT32, I do not know which xp uses - is this a possibility 
(expecting the hd to be something other than FATx??
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