USB Hard Drive not accessible in Explorer

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From: sharon (sharon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:23:06 -0800

Hello,
This message is similar to the previous post about devices not showing up in
Explorer, however I am not sure if it is really the same issue or not...

I have a USB Hard Drive that I recently reformatted using Partition Magic
7.0. Before reformatting the drive, the file system was NTSB and the drive
worked fine, however I formatted it because I would like to be able to plug
it into my Mac so I changed it to FAT32. Now the drive will not work on
either computer.

If I go to the Device Manager, the hard drive is listed there - however it
does not show up in Explorer, so I can not read/write to it, nor can I
reformat it back to NTSB because Partition Magic does not see the drive.

I'm not sure what to even search for to find help on this subject, so any
advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks very much!!

-sharon

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