Cannot access the external HDD PX1396E

Just bought this external hard drive, 1TB.
I plug it in and Windows (xp) recognizes it and installs the drivers, or something.
When I click on it to explore it, it says please insert disk into drive X.
I've connected it to 3 different computers and same problem.
I've tried looking for specific drivers but there don't seem to be any, not even in the toshiba website.
What's up, anyone know?
Thanks.

Mr,
I think you should go to the palce where you back to the place where you bought the external HDD, because it's not your computer who has the problem. If your computer was diffictueus then the External HDD should work with the other computers.
So it's a hardware problem with the external, may be it's Broken. So go and change it.
that's all what I can Say.

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