I recieved a Seagate 160G drive and turned it into a Usb removable drive. After hooking it up, the drive shows up in the Device Manager, but does not show up in the Disk management area. And does not show up in the My computer area. I have tried this on two different machines, one running XP pro and the other running XP home, both have SP2 installed. It has been a while since I have build a machine, but I didn't think I am that rusty. What am I missing ? ThanksFirst off, is the drive even formatted? Most drives come unformatted and require the user to throw a PARTITION of some sort on it. Check that out and keep posted.My GUESS is that it is not formatted, and for the life of me I can't think of how to do it if I can't see it. Thanks

TimHmm....i wonder. Maybe if u uninstall it from the Device Manager list and plug it back in..windows will jump into plug'n'play mode and maybe reinstall it correctly?No dice. It shows up in the device manager, but not in the disk management area or in my computer. Starting to think the drive is shot. THANKSIF you right clik it in Disk Management and select Properties how is it being reported ? ?If I right CLICK it in device manager, it will give me the properties, but it will not populate (possibly because I have it a drive case connected by usb). But it does not show up at all in the disk management. The light on the drive case is active, and it does look like the drive is being queried. It could very well be a faulty USB enclosure...i'd hook up the drive internally as a slave and see if it is recognised in Disk Management and if so format it from there to prepare it for use.
Then swap it back into the enclosure and see...
If the same symptoms appear after these steps then the enclosure is dead.

p.s. You could also DLoad SeaTools from their site to create a bootable CD and use their utilities to both check the health of the drive and prep it for use.