USB Hard Drive Not Recognized

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I am running a home built system (specs in signature). I recently purchased an enclsoure for a Seagate 200 meg HD. I put the new hard drive into the new enclosure, made the connections, and connected it to my computer via the provided USB cord. When I power the unit up, I get the USB icon in my task bar indicating that it recognizes there is a device there. However, when I go into Windows Explorer, it's not listed as a drive letter. I unplugged it and plugged it into several other USB ports on my computer, but get the same results. I went into device manager and tried to add new hardware, but that did not work. I walked through Windows troubleshooting guide, but that did not work. So my computer recognizes that something is there, but it never assigns it a drive letter in Windows. The drive has never been formatted. Could this be the problem? Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

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you must partition the disk first. go to my computer, manage
select disk managaement and select the disk
you can then create partions and format them.

Rich