External Enclosure Help

[ben johnson]

I just bought this external enclosure:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145745

It came with a drivers CD but the drivers were made for windows 98. When I try to install the drivers it says "Windows 98 only" and then exits out of the installation. When I connected the device to my laptop which is running Windows XP it said it was installed successfully. How do I access this drive? I cant figure out how to use it. It's not under "my computer" but when I go to control panel > add new hardware its in the list. Also, its connected through USB.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Double Jesus]

it should show up under my computer... not with your other hard drives though i don't think. should show up under removable media. check that.

have you been to the mfr website? i don't think those devices need drivers but if they do, you'll find it there.

 

[jpmkm]

Is the drive partitioned and formatted? Does it show up in disk management? USB drive enclosures all use a standard USB storage device driver, which is included in pretty much every operating system that has USB support, so you shouldn't need to install any additional drivers.

 

[JasonE4]

Right-click on My Computer -> Click Manage -> Click Disk Management -> Find drive and Right-Click -> New Partition

 

[zoobaby]

Dumb question but I have to ask. Did you put a hard drive in it? It will not show up under My Computer until you do.

 

[scoob8000]

Sounds like theres no partitions on the disk, or no drive letters assigned.

Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc > Enter

Does the drive show up there?

 

[ben johnson]

ha ha yes the hard drive is in there.

I had to go to disc management and import the foreign disk. I didnt realize I needed to do this.

Thanks for your help.

 

[zoobaby]

ha ha yes the hard drive is in there.

Thought I'd check, because no one I know has ever done that. And besides it was a 2.5" enclosure and not a 3.5".

Glad you got it working.