USB EXTERNAL HD CADDY CONUNDRUM!!!

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Heres the thing...

A friend has leant me a 3.5" HDD External caddy with a 30gb Maxtor HDD
in it, although he's only put it together and never used it.

Most of the time it shows up OK in device manager under Disk Drives (as
Maxtor USB Device), but it never shows up in My Computer or Disk
Management, so I cant use it, format it or even assign a drive letter.

On rare occasions I get the dumb Balloon saying "Device not
Recognized".

How do I get it to show up in My Computer or Disk Management?

Other Info...
The caddy is plugged directly to the computer, not through a hub.
The caddy has an independant power supply which IS working and spinning
the disk.
The green LED is lit on the fromt of the caddy to suggest constant
activity.
The computer is a laptop so I havnt got a spare IDE cable hanging
around to try the HDD on.
The HDD (im told) used to be on a network and is NTFS format.
Ive tried all jumper positions (master, slave and cable select) and
still no joy.

Discus!

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