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Okay, what lead me to believe that the problem was/is associated with the drive letters is the fact that I had two old drives, C and E that I both tried to connect to the new computer which also has drives C and E. In both instances, in Vista's Disk Management, the old drives were listed, but they needed to be Initialized. When I tried to Initialize them and error message stated that the Device Is Not Ready, and I could go no further.
When I changed the new computer's E drive to something else, I was able to connect the old E drive to the new computer, whereupon it was recognized. I could open the drive and see the two files left on it.
When the old C drive is connected, the new computer knows it has a mass storage device connected to it, but it wont show it on the Computer window as an available drive. It will show it in Disk Management, but requiring Initializing, which it cant do. I can't do anything with the old C drive in Disk Management.
I connect the USB port to the computer first, then to the drive, then power then drive. The drive does power up.
So it may actually be a bad hard drive?
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