External Drive working at home but not at work

[Krynn72]

I bought a 2.5in external drive the other day so I could bring my music to work and transfer stuff there, but I can only get windows to recognize it at home.

My home computer is running vista, work computers are on XP. I formatted the drive with NTFS. It may be due to not having enough power, but it should beep if its not getting enough, which it doesnt. And I know it works, because at home it will beep and not work until I plug a power source in. It DOES however show up in the "Safely Remove" box on the work computers, and in the Diskmgmt.msc. When in Disk Management though, it says the drive is "Not Readable."

Anyone know whats up?

 

[Eejit]

I dunno, any chance the work IT guys have set it up so you can't? Any sensitive information they might worry about leaking?

 

[CyberPitz]

Krynn72: i don't think so, Eejit. I work for Homeland Security, but I don't see why they would be worried about anything like this....
--Krynn72 is Offline.--

 

[Krynn72]

Nah, we dont even have an IT department. The guy who put these computers together was an idiot who wouldnt even know how to do that. Besides, I've used my MP3 Player as a flash drive before, and it worked then.

 

[No Limit]

Under disk management have you tried assigning it a drive letter or does it not let you get that far? It's the "change drive letter and paths" option.

 

[Kamikazie]

Might be all the kiddie porn you have loaded on it.

 

[No Limit]

Might be all the kiddie porn you have loaded on it.

I know for a fact that has no effect on it.

 

[Kamikazie]

 

[Krynn72]

Under disk management have you tried assigning it a drive letter or does it not let you get that far? It's the "change drive letter and paths" option.

The only options I could select were "Properties" and "Help"

 

[AtomicSpark]

Sometimes drive letters don't get assigned to removable storage. This usually happens when you have network drives set up and your USB storage handler tries to allocate letters that are already taken. However, if you don't have privileges to assign drive letters (can't remember if you had to be an Administrator account), you can't solve this little problem.

The whole "not readable" thing makes it sounds like it's a different issue though...

 

[Krynn72]

Yeah, I read that online somewhere, and after I unmapped my network drives, I tried to assign a letter to it and initialize it, but thats when I found out the "Not Readable" thing and couldnt change it.

It could be a messed up drive though. I had it plugged into my home computer after work today, and while it was working fine, I bluescreen'd while playing GTA, and when my PC was rebooting, it got stuck during POST. It seemed to fix after I pulled out the drive though.

It may have just been a coincidence, but still I cant tell, because its working fine now. And I tried rebooting with it plugged in to see if it would happen again, and it POSTed just fine.

EDIT: I ran chkdsk on it and it seems to be fine too, from what little I understand of this: