My Windows XP does not show(detect) my USB hard drive - URGENT help

[karthikaravind]

I have a IDE hard drive with USB casing and connected to my USB port.
The problem is the hard drive partitions are not shown up in My
computer.
But My Computer->Manage->Storage->Disk management shows the hard drive
with 3 partitions and all the three are healthy.I know there are a few
bad sectors.
I am sure I have not made any changes in registry that prevents drives
from being shown.
Please help me.

[Bob CP]

Try setting the drive letters of the drive to something high, like X/Y/Z.

[Sjouke Burry]

You might have a drive letter collision.
In disk management assign them a new drive letter
in the upper part of the alphabet.
Then back to "my computer" and check up on them.
The same solution works for flashdisks which
sometimes dont work.