Hi, i bought My Passport Essential Last Year, and worked fine for a long time.
I tried all orientations on other topics, I tryed to read in another computer, changed the USB cable, I entered on Control Panel. And the Icon still not appearing on “My Computer”, the light is on and it appears where I remove other Hardwares.
I use Windows XP and i never had a problem with it, it happend from nothing, it didn’t fall or disconnected without the tool “safely remove” from Windows.