External drive unrecognized

[Tblossom]

I have a Samsung external drive that my computer doesn´t recognize, anymore. I shut everything down before a thunderstorm "blew over"; and afterwards when I turned everything back on, this problem resulted. The drive connects by USB and I´ve tried several of the various USB slots....no luck!
My computer has the following content as of 10 minutes ago:
Operating System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. M56S-S3
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-M56S-S3
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F2 09/26/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
560.11 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
550.01 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203P [CD-ROM drive]

SAMSUNG HD403LJ [Hard drive] (400.09 GB) -- drive 1
WDC WD1600BB-22GUA0 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMAL92850765, rev 08.02D08, SMART Status: Healthy 2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' is Empty
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 1) 400.08 GB 390.05 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 159.96 GB free

Network Drives
None detected



Brother DCP-135C Printer on USB001
Brother HL-1240 on LPT1:
Brother MFC-5550 on LPT1:
Brother MFC-6000 on LPT1:

Controllers Display
Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x)
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x)
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (2x) LogMeIn Mirror Driver [Display adapter]
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS [Display adapter]
NFC 171M [Monitor] (17.1"vis)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller Realtek High Definition Audio
Communications Other Devices

1394 Net Adapter
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.0.2 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Dhcp Server: 192.168.0.1
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:FD:9D:73

Networking Dns Servers: 217.237.148.102
217.237.151.115
Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator
USB Root Hub (2x)
Virus Protection [Back to Top]
AVG 7.5.523 Version 7.5.523
Realtime File Scanning On


All required security hotfixes (using the 05/13/2008 Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary) have been installed.

[Ant]

Bit of a while ago now but, I assume that the drive works perfectly well when attached to another machine?

In which case the fault lies within your computer, or if not the problem is with the drive. Is there a firmware update available for it?

[Tokra]

I am having a similar problem.

I bought a Samsung 750GB drive which I am running externally. I formatted it in NTFS on my vista machine, it is viewable through 'Disk Management' on my XP machine, but uneditable and the drives contents are supposedly empty (i have at least 100GB used).

Any ideas?