Western Digital Passport Essential not working

[Adamman715]

For Christmas, I received a Western Digital Passport Essential. It worked in my Desktop and other laptop computers. Afterwards, I bought a Dell Latitude D600 off of eBay. I tried plugging in the drive into my USB port, but there was a power surge. Fixed that, and found another cord. I tried that, but there was another power surge. Many cords later, I found one that works, but it does not recognize the drive, and needs drivers. I scoured Google, but found none. Any suggestions?




Adam

 

[MindoverMaster]

Did you try it on the computers that it did work previously? otherwise, it sounds like you fried it.

 

[Adamman715]

Yes, it does work on the other computers.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Did you see it in Computer Management? might be a letter already used.

 

[Adamman715]

It's listed under USB Devices and has a question mark for it's icon, so the computer has no clue what it is. I was also told it was a Plug and Play device, but not sure if that's true now...

 

[joelm3103]

It's USB and if it worked on previous system without the use of installing drivers manually, it seems plug and play. What OS are you running currently? What OS's are installed on the previous systems? Also does it work on other systems now or you just said so because it worked previously?

 

[Adamman715]

All systems use Windows XP Home Premium. The drive works on all the systems except my laptop.

 

[joelm3103]

Hmm not sure what's wrong then.

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That's all I can find at the moment, guess it already crossed your mind.