Usb External Hard Drive Not Recognized Windows Vista

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I upgraded from Vista Home Premium SP2 (32Bit) to Windows 7 Home Premium (32Bit) and after the upgrade my external usb hard drive can not be seen. The system notices it when it is plugged in and/or powered on but does not show it under My Computer or any other drive display option. Hi, I have been having the same problem, my external hard drive is 'not recognized' by Windows 7. It worked fine with XP and Vista, and intermittently with Windows 7 until now - no way to make it work. As a matter of fact, the 'external hard drive not showing up' issue can be caused by various reasons, including dead USB ports, driver issues in Windows, using the wrong file system, and so on. Thus, the solutions are varied. Now, keep reading to find how to fix external hard drive not recognized.

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But it's a little more compicated than that. I'm hooking up an IDE drive. I'm using one of those external USB kits - it's a usb to IDE cable and a power supply for the drive. It works great in XP, shows right up in 'my computer' and I got some files off it. It's formatted NTFS and worked in this same PC as an internal drive. Vista (my vista 32 laptop and my 64 bit machine) loads up some drivers and tells me it's ready to use a 'usb mass storage device' but it does not show up in 'my computer'. It shows up in device manager under disk drives, usb drive and is 'working correctly and it shows up in 'computer management' where it tells me the drive has not been 'initialized' but it can't initialize it.
It's kind of an off brand, creative i/o, couldn't find any support on-line. The direction say it wotks in Vista, no drivers needed in XP or Vista, and trying to update driver in device manage it tells me I have best driver already.
Any ideas?