External Hard Drive Capacity: 300GB Manufacturer: Fantom Drives Connection Type: USB 2.0 Hi, I have a external 300GB Fantom Hard Drive about one year old. Last week when I tried to connect it with my PC, my computer didn't recgonzed the dirve. It doesn't show any icon for the drive in "My Computer". However, when I checked in the "Device Manager", it showed the hard drive as connected. I also checked the drive on a laptop. It detected the drive, installed the drive, but again, no icon in "My Computer". When connected and turned ON, it now gives a beep sound for some time and then behaves normally, when the "Blue" led light (Contrary to the "red" one which means that there is a problem with the connection. Anybody have any ideas, what is wrong with the drive. Thank you for the help regards Mack
have you tried this? start -> right click my computer -> manage -> disk management. see if your drive is there and if it is, format it and it should appear on my computer.
The Drive is not shown Under Disk management. From the Following Link, it seems that it is a common problem in Fantom hard drives Fantom External Hard Drive not Recognized - Everything USB Community
The warranty for the drive is over, hence there are no problems with opening the enclosure, however, i am trying to keep it as the last option. (this thursday is the deadline)
