Can't see external HD thru windows explorer.

I've just installed Win Server 2003 on my home PC, and I'm a newbie using it.
I plugged in a USB-type external drive into my machine, and it seems to be
installed properly. Device manager says it's working, the "remove hardware"
tool in the systems tray sees it, but win explorer can't see the disk at all.
So I can't get a drive letter assigned to it, or access it at all. Is there
some security setting on Server that is stopping this? Any suggestions?

Thanks, Mike

One other piece of data. A USB-flash drive plugged into this port (or
another) works fine. And this HD works on other machines. Mike

"Mike M." wrote:

> I've just installed Win Server 2003 on my home PC, and I'm a newbie using it.
> I plugged in a USB-type external drive into my machine, and it seems to be
> installed properly. Device manager says it's working, the "remove hardware"
> tool in the systems tray sees it, but win explorer can't see the disk at all.
> So I can't get a drive letter assigned to it, or access it at all. Is there
> some security setting on Server that is stopping this? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Mike

I guess I figured it out. I had to go into Disk Manager and manually assign
a drive letter to this HD. I don't know if I'll have to do that each time,
but at least it works this way. Mike

"Mike M." wrote:

> I've just installed Win Server 2003 on my home PC, and I'm a newbie using it.
> I plugged in a USB-type external drive into my machine, and it seems to be
> installed properly. Device manager says it's working, the "remove hardware"
> tool in the systems tray sees it, but win explorer can't see the disk at all.
> So I can't get a drive letter assigned to it, or access it at all. Is there
> some security setting on Server that is stopping this? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Mike

right click my computer,click on manage, click on disk management, find
drive apply letter.
"Mike M." <MikeM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48D94A1A-CAF1-405E-AB2C-5C5B92E59460@microsoft.com...
> I've just installed Win Server 2003 on my home PC, and I'm a newbie using
> it.
> I plugged in a USB-type external drive into my machine, and it seems to be
> installed properly. Device manager says it's working, the "remove
> hardware"
> tool in the systems tray sees it, but win explorer can't see the disk at
> all.
> So I can't get a drive letter assigned to it, or access it at all. Is
> there
> some security setting on Server that is stopping this? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Mike