MS Windows Vista Enterprise won't accept Western Digital External

Hi Everyone!

I'm the IT Manager and we got our Vista media today and I'm going though the
expected frustrations of a new OS. Overall, Vista is incredible! I really
like it. However I'm having a problem with my external drive....

Its a Western Digital 3200 JB External USB Drive. Plug it in, Vista detects
w/o any problems, installs a driver 'successfully' but when I go to access
the drive i get:

Location is not available
H:\ is not accessible
Access is denied

I know the drive is fine as it works on my XP laptop & other machines.
Also, the Disk Manager shows it as a healthy NTFS volume.

Thoughts? Probably something that will be fixed w/ a driver in the coming
weeks but I thought I'd send out a msg anyway.

ZurgDawg wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I'm the IT Manager and we got our Vista media today and I'm going
> though the expected frustrations of a new OS. Overall, Vista is
> incredible! I really like it. However I'm having a problem with my
> external drive....
>
> Its a Western Digital 3200 JB External USB Drive. Plug it in, Vista
> detects w/o any problems, installs a driver 'successfully' but when I
> go to access the drive i get:
>
> Location is not available
> H:\ is not accessible
> Access is denied
>
> I know the drive is fine as it works on my XP laptop & other machines.
> Also, the Disk Manager shows it as a healthy NTFS volume.
>
> Thoughts? Probably something that will be fixed w/ a driver in the
> coming weeks but I thought I'd send out a msg anyway.

If the volume has been mounted and assigned a drive letter then it probably
isn't a driver issue.

Were I dealing with this problem, I might be inclined to assume that the
error message I was getting says what it means and means what it says and
start reviewing the NTFS permissions assigned to that volume, all while
remembering that Vista is not XP and that assumptions I could previously
make might not be valid any more.