Guv Bob wrote:

Buffalo 3T Ext Drive
Model HD-LC3.0U3
http://www.buffalotech.com/
(866) 752-6210

I bought one of these today. Practically no documentation.

I have Win2000 and the guy at the store said this one will work. The
drive shows up in Device Manager, but no new drive letter in Windows
Explorer.

Device Manager found the device via the USB interface. That only means
the device was detectable, not that it is usable.

Use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to see if any partitions are on the
drive. If not, you'll have to create one, or more. After creating or
finding the partitions, are they formatted? If not, you'll have to
format them.

http://www.buffalotech.com/content/f...HD-LCU3_DS.pdf
"Simply plug it in to any USB port and instantly expand storage ..."

Not if the hard disk has not been pre-partitioned and pre-formatted.

With so little documentation, and even if I were to guess how to get
this device working, I'll nuisance Buffalo with a phone call if anything
because the customer is nuisanced with no documentation and an external
device that was not pre-partitioned and pre-formatted. The call is free
to you (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_code_866).

They may figure someone might use this external storage on a *NIX host
and want to use ext3 instead of FAT32 or NTFS. Call them to find out.
Could be the device is defective. If so, you want to get this resolved
before the return period expires at the store where you bought it.