usb hard drive is not recognised under windows 2000 server

thebourke

We have a windows 2000 server here at work.
I want to be able to attach a usb 3.0 docking station to it with a 1 TB hard drive to copy data locally from the 2000 server to the hard drive
http://eu.startech.com/HDD/Docking/~SATDOCKU3FEU


When i connect the usb hard drive it shows up under computer management as a healthY basic disk but it does not show up in windows explorer.
any ideas what could be causing the problem?
Would this be a size limitation?

roast

You'll need to assign the drive a letter. Once that's done, it'll show up in Explorer.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

seamus

It could be a size limitation. Win2k out of the box only recognises drives up to 127GB. There's a registry hack to fix it.

However, the behaviour you describe seems to indicate that you simply need to map this drive to a letter.

Right-click on the partition, "Assign Drive letter and paths" and see if you can assign a letter to it.

thebourke

it is assigned a drive....i am now re-formatting the usb hard drive on the windows 2000 server....to see if it recognises it that way...

thebourke

reformating the hard drive under windows 2000 worked....thanks for all your advice.