re: W2000 Does not see my USB drive
Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
Angus
You may need to install the Enhanced Hub Controller b/4 the OS will see the USB device
with the HD installed in it,with the hotfix from M$.
Plus you may want to format the HD in two partitions .
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You may want to read the links below.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140906601
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/1140903398
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How To enable Big Drives
48-Bit LBA Support for ATAPI Disk Drives in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/
10/19/2001 01:42 PM 5.0.2195.4529 86,768 Atapi.sys
04/19/2002 05:43 PM 214,938 Update.inf
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How to Enable IDE DMA Bus-Mastering Using SP2 Atapi.sys
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q158873/
τΏτ DEX/Bj
You can also help some one :>)
Please revisit your post so that others on this forum will know if the solutions
were helpful or not helpful .
On Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 10:41 am, Angus wrote:
>Just purchased a "NEWlink" USB to IDE adapter. I have installed a 120GB drive in
>the unit, the drive is formatted NTFS and works fine attached directly to the PC.
> However, W2K does not "see" the unit when I plug in the USB cable, and the only
>install sw included is for W98. The unit has an external power supply, and seems
>to power up - at least the drive spins & the light comes on. Is there any way to
>force W2K to access it, or can anyone suggest any diagnostics that I can run? It
>might just be that the unit is faulty, I suppose. BTW, I have tried this with known
>good cable and USB port.
>Thanks!
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