freddy

Mike,

The following is the officially recommended procedure
for connecting external USB drives, quote:

IMPORTANT: Failure to connect the drive using the procedure below may result
in your system not recognizing the drive. Also, not disconnecting the drive
correctly could result in data corruption or data loss.

To connect your external hard drive to your PC computer:

Turn on your computer and allow Windows to load.

Plug in the power to the external hard drive and let it spin up.

Connect the data cable to the drive first and then to the computer.

You should see a new icon appear in the system tray and the drive should
appear in the Device Manager

If you haven't tried doing the connection in the way indicated, try it to
see what happens. Other than that, that's all I have for now.
--
freddy


"Mike" wrote:

> I have an iomega 80 gig and a western digital 250 gig drive. I am running a
> Dell xsp pc with Vista Home Preimum. I can connect any of the drives to a pc
> with windows xp and they are immediately found. When connecting to the dell
> with vista they are not found and when searching both the web and the pc for
> the drivers, they are not found. Any suggestions??