Solve : USB Drive disappeared?

1.	Solve : USB Drive disappeared?
Answer» And the hits just keep on coming. So, getting ready to reformat my HD (as documented in painstaking detail elsewhere). I have an 80GB WESTERN Digital USB HD. It had been swappable between my two machines. I copied a bunch of stuff off the soon-to-be-killed-and-hopefully-brought-back laptop onto the USB HD. I shut down the soon-to-die laptop. I plugged the USB HD into the surviving laptop. Nothing. I plug in my USB memory sticks, they pop up in Explorer. This, NOTHING. The power light comes on. The "new USB device" sound goes, but there is NOTHING THERE!!!!! How do I find it???!?!?!?!???!?!?Went to "Computer Management" and this is what it looks like: . If I right-click on it (Disk 1) in the lower right, I am given the options "Partition" and "Properties". What can I do that WILL NOT ERASE THIS DISK??!?!???!?!??!? Thanks From My COmputer, highlight the errant drive, right click and choose proerties. Does the file system show as RAW? Did it used to work and then quit? Was it FORMATTED previously as NTFS?Quote From My COmputer, highlight the errant drive, right click and choose proerties. That's the point! It's NOT THERE!!!!!! Quote Did it used to work and then quit? Yes. An hour ago. Quote Was it formatted previously as NTFS? Not a clue. It's a Western Digital My Book 80GB USB drive. It worked out of the box.Did you PROPERLY power off the USB connection in Windows, or just pull the plug on the device?No to either. As with the "sticks", I have always been able to unplug from the USB of one machine and put it in the other and have it work fine. (Using XP SP2). I know (or think I know) that in OLDER systems, not using the system shutdown will cause some items not to write properly, but it wouldn't cause total global meltdown... Quote Did you properly power off the USB connection in Windows, or just pull the plug on the device? Quote No to either. censored? :-? What kind of Operating System do you have?XP SP2

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And the hits just keep on coming.

So, getting ready to reformat my HD (as documented in painstaking detail elsewhere).

I have an 80GB WESTERN Digital USB HD. It had been swappable between my two machines.

I copied a bunch of stuff off the soon-to-be-killed-and-hopefully-brought-back laptop onto the USB HD.

I shut down the soon-to-die laptop.

I plugged the USB HD into the surviving laptop.

Nothing.

I plug in my USB memory sticks, they pop up in Explorer.

This, NOTHING.

The power light comes on. The "new USB device" sound goes, but there is NOTHING THERE!!!!!

How do I find it???!?!?!?!???!?!?Went to "Computer Management" and this is what it looks like:
.

If I right-click on it (Disk 1) in the lower right, I am given the options "Partition" and "Properties".

What can I do that WILL NOT ERASE THIS DISK??!?!???!?!??!?

Thanks
From My COmputer, highlight the errant drive, right click and choose proerties. Does the file system show as RAW? Did it used to work and then quit? Was it FORMATTED previously as NTFS?Quote

From My COmputer, highlight the errant drive, right click and choose proerties.

That's the point! It's NOT THERE!!!!!!

Quote

Did it used to work and then quit?

Yes. An hour ago.

Quote

Was it formatted previously as NTFS?

Not a clue. It's a Western Digital My Book 80GB USB drive. It worked out of the box.Did you PROPERLY power off the USB connection in Windows, or just pull the plug on the device?No to either.

As with the "sticks", I have always been able to unplug from the USB of one machine and put it in the other and have it work fine.

(Using XP SP2).

I know (or think I know) that in OLDER systems, not using the system shutdown will cause some items not to write properly, but it wouldn't cause total global meltdown...

Quote

Did you properly power off the USB connection in Windows, or just pull the plug on the device?

Quote

No to either.

*censored*? :-? What kind of Operating System do you have?XP SP2

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