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Old May 30th 04, 09:07 AM
Ron Kleingeld
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Default ME does not allocate external USB disk drive

My friend has purchased a 120GB external drive and when
this is powered on and then plugged in on the USB port,
Windows ME finds the new hardware and allocates a driver,
but it does not go as far as to put it in My Computer as
an available drive we can use. Anyone have any idea why
this is?
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Old May 30th 04, 09:23 AM
Mike M
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Default ME does not allocate external USB disk drive

Explorer won't assign a drive letter to your drive until it has been fdisked.
Have you done that? If not then that is the cause of your problem and what
follows may help.

Since you are using an external USB drive the way to fdisk and then format it
is to open a DOS window in Win Me and then run fdisk from the DOS prompt.
Enable large disk support, switch fdisk to access the usb drive and then make
your partitions. Normally one would do this from DOS by booting from a floppy
but since it is a usb drive you won't be able to see the drive from DOS and
therefore you need to do this from a DOS window running in Win Me.

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Ron Kleingeld wrote:

My friend has purchased a 120GB external drive and when
this is powered on and then plugged in on the USB port,
Windows ME finds the new hardware and allocates a driver,
but it does not go as far as to put it in My Computer as
an available drive we can use. Anyone have any idea why
this is?



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Old June 2nd 04, 04:02 AM
Ron
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Default ME does not allocate external USB disk drive

A great help, thank you!
-----Original Message-----
Explorer won't assign a drive letter to your drive until

it has been fdisked.
Have you done that? If not then that is the cause of

your problem and what
follows may help.

Since you are using an external USB drive the way to

fdisk and then format it
is to open a DOS window in Win Me and then run fdisk

from the DOS prompt.
Enable large disk support, switch fdisk to access the

usb drive and then make
your partitions. Normally one would do this from DOS by

booting from a floppy
but since it is a usb drive you won't be able to see the

drive from DOS and
therefore you need to do this from a DOS window running

in Win Me.

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft

Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the

Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk"

(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Ron Kleingeld

wrote:

My friend has purchased a 120GB external drive and when
this is powered on and then plugged in on the USB port,
Windows ME finds the new hardware and allocates a

driver,
but it does not go as far as to put it in My Computer

as
an available drive we can use. Anyone have any idea why
this is?



.

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Old June 2nd 04, 11:18 AM
Mike M
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Default ME does not allocate external USB disk drive

Ron,

Hopefully that means your friend is now able to use their external usb drive.
At least I hope so. g

If not please post back and we will take it from there
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Ron wrote:

A great help, thank you!



 




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