re: USB External Drive Enclosure not recognised by Windows ME
Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(294 messages posted)
Hi Ed,
Are you using a dedicated power supply with the external HDD (or a powered USB hub)?
If you aren't, that might be your problem. Not all computers are set up to provide
power through the data cable. If that's the case with yours, Windows will certainly
register the box, but it won't register the HDD itself, and no drive letter will
be allocated.
On Friday, February 23, 2007 at 5:07 am, Ed wrote:
>I'm trying to install an external hard drive (Western Digital IDE 3.5" disk) in
a
>combined USB/Firewire external enclosure. But the enclosure is not being recognised
>by Windows ME on any of the USB ports.
>
>The computer has both USB 1.1 ports (on the motherboard) and USB 2.0 ports (on a
>PCI Card). All the USB ports are working: they recognise all the other USB devices.
>It doesn't currently have a Firewire port.
>
>The enclosure is powering-up (the drive spins, and the cooling fan spins), and I've
>swapped the USB cable with a spare that definitely works. I think it's a driver
file
>issue.
>
>The enclosure kit came with a driver CD, but the driver is for Win 98SE only. According
>to the kit's manual, Windows ME uses its built-in drivers (which is what I had assumed).
>
>In Device Manager, the USB universal host controller (for USB 1.1) and the enhanced
>host controller (for USB 2.0) show up, as do the USB root hub and USB 2.0 root hub
>entries, and the Open Host Controller (E13+) entries. But there is no "USB Mass
Storage
>Device" entry, and I'm wondering if this is where the problem lies?
>
>Where do I find the necessary driver file? It's presumably supplied with Windows
>ME, in one of the CAB files. But I have an OEM version of Win ME, and I think it
>did not come with all the Win ME drivers pre-installed. Which driver file should
>I look for in the CABs?
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