Vista - External Hard Drive Buffalo Drivestation Vista will not pick it up

Hi There

I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo say
it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it. Plugged it
into my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am doing wrong
vista picks up my other external drives ok.
Any help would be appreciated as I have tried everywhere for a drive but to
no avail.

Sue

Have you gone into Administrative Tools> Computer Management and looked under
Disk Management to see if the drive is recognized there? You must partition,
format and assign a drive letter before you can see and use a new drive.


"Sue" <susan.davies3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:CEA37B18-6680-4825-893A-08AA7266DE9D@microsoft.com...
> Hi There
>
> I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo say
> it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it. Plugged it into
> my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am doing wrong vista picks
> up my other external drives ok.
> Any help would be appreciated as I have tried everywhere for a drive but to no
> avail.
>
> Sue

Hi

Thanks for your quick reply.
Yes I have tried admin tools but no drive.
How can I format drive if I cannot see it?

Sue

Ouch!
Different USB port? Different cable?
Take it back and try another unit or different brand?


"Sue" <susan.davies3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> Yes I have tried admin tools but no drive.
> How can I format drive if I cannot see it?
>
> Sue

Thanks again Cal Bear

have tried all of that but to no avail

Thanks

Sue

Sue wrote:
> Hi There
>
> I have Vista Premium. I purchased a Buffalo Drivestation (500gb) Buffalo
> say it is Vista Compatible but my computer does not recognize it.
> Plugged it into my XP machine and that was fine. Anyone know what I am
> doing wrong vista picks up my other external drives ok.

What actually happens when you plug the drive into Vista? Any error
messages?

hi
nothing happens at all

sue

Sue wrote:
> hi
> nothing happens at all

Ugh. That's not the answer I expected. Is it a USB drive? Firewire?
eSATA?

Hi again

Its a combo drive firewire or usb.
Buffalo still say its compatible

sue

Perhaps the drive IS defective?
Have you tried it on another machine?

"Sue" <susan.davies3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> Hi again
>
> Its a combo drive firewire or usb.
> Buffalo still say its compatible
>
> sue