Help with an Portable External Hard Drive

[Troll]

Ok two months ago i got this for my birth day. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-Ministation-Slimline-Portable-External/dp/B004KSRM18/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1315000230&sr=8-2) a hard drive which i have been using to store all my films, however it has stop showing up on my laptop but the light on it will come on. I used it on my xbox 360 and it came up and i can watch my films on there. So i belive the fault lies with my laptop but i have no idea what :( Thanks for any help :D

[Kasi]

your laptop is probs just slow? try a different usb port or wait longer?

[Brandon]

Umm having this happened to me more than once and I lost 3 weeks of Uni/col homework.. it sucks but it could be three things:

1. A sector of the harddrive is damaged and needs repairing/Formatting with HP USB Disk Utility.. Kinda doubt it cuz it works on the xbox.. but it can still be a possible problem.

2. Drivers for the computer are corrupt and need re-instaling.. Usually PCI simple communication protocol and Mass Storage Device Driver.

3. A letter needs to be assigned to the harddrive because it conflicts with another drive of the same letter.. This is done through disk management.

Anyway I gtg right now.. So I'll check back and see if any of the above solves it or if anyone else solves it/replies to you.

[Troll]

After messing for a bit it was the drivers being corrupt, thanks for the help you two :)