pcola Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 I bought new pc I have a maxtor 3000LE external disc drive but for some reason windows XP will not recognize it I have a internal maxtor hard drive also. Both are 40 gig. How do I get windows xp to recognize this on plug N Play. It will not appear in hardware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rbreb13 Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 Does it show in disk management? And whats its status? Do you have SP1 and all updates from MS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 oddly enough, did it come with a Software disc? a friend of min bought an external and it came with a drivers cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rbreb13 Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 oddly enough, did it come with a Software disc? a friend of min bought an external and it came with a drivers cd. The driver disk is only needed if you're running a W9x OS. XP should automatically recognize it. Unless its not formatted or has become corrupt. You do need SP1 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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