External Drive on USB
Recently bought a couple of drives and wanted to check/format them before installation. Popped them into an external 'high-speed' (I understand this is NOT the same as USB2) drive unit.
Plugging into a USB 2 port produces a 'New Hardware detected' sequence and 'your hardware is installed and ready for use' message. However, checking on My Computer or Windows Explorer does not show the new drive.
Plugging into a standard USB port does much the same plus the warning that a high speed device is plugged into a low speed port and will operate at reduced speed - still no drive appears. Device manager shows the drive manufacturer etc on the Disk Drive tab but it doesn't allow any access.
Any thoughts as to how I can get access, please?
AMD 64, 1 Gb RAM. XP Prof, Belkin USB 2 external port from a Belkin PCI card.
TIA