papajoe Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 I have pluged my external hard drive into my server box through firewire and USB and it does not show up at all. Is this it a defalut Security thing that is perventing the external drive from accessing the system or something stupid I'm doing? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Does it show up under disk management?alot of times with removeable disks.. if a drive letter is assigned to it... ie: e: and when you plug it in and you already have an e: drive.. it will show up in comp management but not in my computer until you assign a new drive letter to it..and not it isnt a security setting.. i have a 250 external firewire on my 2k3 box as we speak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papajoe Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 No it does not show up in disk management at all. I did find in in computer mamagement though under device manager - Disk drives (Can't find a way to rename it here though) . I renamed that drive on another box (F) and pluged it back into the server and it still won't show up in "My Computer" at all. Is there a way to rename on the server si i can see it and enter it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheWayBoy Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Does it have anything next to in device manager? Just like chilifrei64 said, I too have had to manually asign a drive letter for a few external HD's on my Server 2003. I don't know why it doesn't just give it one, but as long as it gets successfully detected by the OS, then all you have to do is give it a drive letter.Now if you have an error associated with the drive in device manager, then you need to figure out why. I had one drive that wouldn't work on this little USB hub I had. It was bus-powered, so I guess the hub didn't give enough juice. Onec I plugged it into a single USB port on the mobo all was well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papajoe Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 Hey,How do i manually assign a drive letter to it from the server? I don't see any error next to the external drive in Device manager at all.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 1) make sure you have all necessary drivers for your system2) go to device manager and uninstall USB root hub 3) reinstall USB root hub. (replace drivers)let us know if you are still having the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papajoe Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 Ok, done but I still can't access that external drive. I can see it in device manager though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 so you can see it in device manager but not in Disk Management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papajoe Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 Check this out as it may help you understand what I have here.I just connected another external hard drive and I can also see it in device manager. This drive is formated FAT32 and I can see it's properities but I can't mount it in "MyConputer" just like with the other drive.But, I noticed that the new first external drive I was trying to access says "Unlabled Volume Properties> File System RAW and Used Space 0 Bytes and Free Space 0 BytesThis drive can be seen by my other boxs all of which are Win XPThanksNow it's getting real strange. I just connected my ScanDisk Mini Cruzer USB and I can see it mount it and get into all of the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 does it give you an option to initilize or lable the drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papajoe Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 does it give you an option to initilize or lable the driveNo, not on the server at all. I labeled the external a XP box but it doesn't see the label on the server when I plug it in.Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilifrei64 Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 what options does it give you when you right click on it in disk management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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