Last week I also failed to get an external 40G USB HD to run. Win2K 
knows what it is,
but never allows it to come online as a drive letter. The tiny ones 
(512MB in USB "key drives")
work perfectly.

I was told by the USB device that it was not formatted (might've been, 
it was a brand-new drive). So
I tried to format it, and it failed 3/4 of the way through, with the 
error msg "Drive is too large" or such
like simpleton error message.


One great thing about Windows is that there is lots of  time spent 
fiddling with it, keeping me away from
mundane tasks like trying to pay the rent and buying the baby some shoes...

--Bob

Russell McMahon wrote:

>A friend had problems getting an external USB2 connected IDE drive working
>on WIN2K
>As this is becoming an increasingly common application (more under XP than
>2K) the following may be of interest.
>AFAIR this is automatic under XP, but maybe not
>
>        RM
>
>___________________________
>
>From: "Ross McMillan"
>
>What I had to do was (following applies to Win2K):
>
> - plug in the drive
> - open Control Panel
> - open Computer Management
> - expand 'Storage'
> - select disk management
> - you should see the C: drive and the USB drive (which will show as
>'unknown' and have a red exclamation mark icon)
> - click on the usb drive
> - right-click ont the USB drive and then choose 'Write Signature' (this
>seems to be the thing that stops Windows detecting the drive)
>
>from then on you should be able to partition and format the drive using the
>other functions in disk management.
>
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