USB does not allocate a letter

I have purchased an external USB drive, when I connect it to the USB port.
The PC recognises it, but does not allocate a drive letter to it, so I can't
access it.

Any ideas as to how to cure it, other than updating to XP.


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Mike
Tue Dec 28 20:24:43 CST 2004

Have you partitioned and formatted the drive? Until you have partitioned
the drive Explorer cannot allocate a drive letter.

See KB255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867
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limeybiker <abbl@att.net> wrote:

> I have purchased an external USB drive, when I connect it to the USB
> port. The PC recognises it, but does not allocate a drive letter to
> it, so I can't access it.
>
> Any ideas as to how to cure it, other than updating to XP.