External Hard Drive Troubles

[XL]

Bought a new external hard drive.

Connect the thing, light comes on, disk fires up but the drive is not recognised on the PC/laptop.

Tried this on my PC and my sister's laptop, same effect.

Managed to hook it up once, moved a load of stuff across to it and now can't get the thing to be recognised again.

No driver/software disk provided.

It's this piece of shit btw

http://www.maplin.co.uk/750gb-seagate-external-portable-drive-476955

[Vietnamese Crippler]

Does it show up at all in the Device Manager under "Disk Drives", even after going to Action --> Scan for Hardware Changes?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Might not actually be the drive and may be your USB ports.

Had one hell of a time with my onboard USB ports with external storage only, everything else was just fine. 4 different drives lost all their data. Got a new USB card once those ports fully died and all the drives have been fine ever since.

[Nicky Fives]

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/WD-My-Passport-SE_1.jpg

I have this 1 terabyte bad boy (only in red)..... I bought it in October and it is almost full..... I've had no problems......