Odd issue trying to read external drive file system

Monkey34

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I have a known good external usb drive formatted NTFS with data on it. I can access it fine through any number of computers in XP, Vista, 7, and 8 except for one particular XP computer.

I went through the trouble of copying the data off temporarily, and re-formatting the drive, and then putting the data back......but the damned computer still only sees it as a RAW filesystem, when it's fine on all the other systems.

I also notice it's not listing it as a removable drive in My Computer and disk management, but the safely remove hardware eject taskbar icon does.

Any ideas?
 
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Driver issue?

Same Service Pack for XP?

Same service pack (3).

Tried uninstalling it, it found new hardware, and went back to square one.
Tried updating the driver, and it didn't find anything better.
 
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