Maxtor OneTouch II Drive Undetected

After first connecting my 200Gb Maxtor OneTouch II drive to my iMac it is unrecognized. There is no icon present on the desktop, nor is it found in Disk Utilities area. The only area I see proof of it is in System Profiler, under USB.
My current thoughts are that it may be formatted incorrectly, most likely in NFTS, rather than FAT-32 or Mac's HFS+.
Any thoughts on how to make this external drive work?

Hello TheNorth
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Reset and restart your iMac's ports as described in the link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317?viewlocale=en_US
Then if it still won't mount on the Desktop or Disk Utility try the Quick Assist article!
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1151?viewlocale=en_US
Dennis

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Re: MLeopard and MAXTOR one Touch III 350Gb external Hardisk
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There's Google as well with this first hit:
Blog Quote:" If, like me, you upgraded your Powerbook to Mac OS X "Tiger" only to find it crashing every time you plugged in your Maxtor OneTouch firewire disk, fear not. The solution turns out to be quite simple.
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