External USB Harddrive Fails in Disk Manager -> Removable ..

I have installed a USB 2 PCI card in a IBM Netfinity3000 PIII server
running Win 2000 Server SP4. All works fine in that regard according
to device manager.

I have then tried to connect a 250Gb External USB drive formatted to
NTFS under WinXP (ie NTFS 5.1)as far as I have read that should also
be ok with Windows 2000.

When I attach the drive it spins up for a short while, but it never
shows up as a drive under windows. I then looked in Control Panel -->
Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Manager -->
Removeable Storage and the drive is listed there twice with a red
cross in both instances.

Once as Twin MOS Mobile Disk USB device. When I click on the disk icon
for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Dismountable".

Secondly it is listed as TS128MJFLASHA USB Device. When I click on the
disk icon for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Empty".

I don't seem to be able to find much info on this or others with
similar problems. So far I have only found a reference to people with
tape drives having this problem, but this is an external USB disk.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

Cheers,

/Jesper

Lucky you. Mycomputer doesn't even show the external drive. So I'm
still stuck without being able to retrieve my data from a perfectly
good drive.



On 7 May 2007 05:29:19 -0700, jkn_73.DeleteThis@hotmail.com wrote:

>I have installed a USB 2 PCI card in a IBM Netfinity3000 PIII server
>running Win 2000 Server SP4. All works fine in that regard according
>to device manager.
>
>I have then tried to connect a 250Gb External USB drive formatted to
>NTFS under WinXP (ie NTFS 5.1)as far as I have read that should also
>be ok with Windows 2000.
>
>When I attach the drive it spins up for a short while, but it never
>shows up as a drive under windows. I then looked in Control Panel -->
>Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Manager -->
>Removeable Storage and the drive is listed there twice with a red
>cross in both instances.
>
>Once as Twin MOS Mobile Disk USB device. When I click on the disk icon
>for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Dismountable".
>
>Secondly it is listed as TS128MJFLASHA USB Device. When I click on the
>disk icon for this entry I get a state of "Not Present, Empty".
>
>I don't seem to be able to find much info on this or others with
>similar problems. So far I have only found a reference to people with
>tape drives having this problem, but this is an external USB disk.
>
>Any help at all would be appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>
>/Jesper