Do you have an AC adapter plugged into the external drive, or is it getting all it's power from the USB cable? External drives will often work with only the power from the USB cable, but they'll work more reliably with a separate power source. -- Rich On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Robert H. Baucom <rbtbcm at owc.net> wrote: > Thanks for the input. I have installed the NEW Sonnet USB 2 PCI Card. > The Seagate 500GB free agent USB external Hard Drive still doesn't show up > on the desk top :-( > Bummer, it has a lot of stuff I brought from Texas that needs to be > transfered to this Quick Silver.