Well this is a forum for writing device drivers, but you might right click
on "My Computer" go to "Manage" and then choose "Disk Management" if the
drive shows up right clicking on the drive allows you to set the drive
letter.


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> Hello all,
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> Just joined the community and I hope someone can help me. Before I
> formated my windows XP my 160GB wd passport external hard drive was
> working just fine. I had some issues with my laptop and it was beyond
> my understanding, so i brought it to a computer shop. The guy fixed it
> and reinstalled windows xp and the computer is not detecting the
> external drive. Actually when i plug it in , i can see it as a
> removeable drive but i cannot see it in My computer.... some people
> told me to assign a letter and a path....but actually i don't have any
> options for that. It's wierd because i can see it in the device list
> but i can't access it or even see it in My computer.
>
> Thank you
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